Preverbal Subjects with a Partitive Article: A Comparison Between Aosta Valley Francoprovençal and French*.

In this paper, we focus on two constructions that allow preverbal subjects headed by a so‐called partitive article in French, that is, sentences with a stage‐level predicate and generic emphatic constructions. The aim is to explain why their counterparts were generally not accepted by speakers of Fr...

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Published in:Studia Linguistica Vol. 76; no. 1; pp. 130 - 167
Format: Article
Published: Wiley-Blackwell Apr2022
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