L'interaction entre le marquage du nombre et la détermination nominale dans le domaine de l'indéfini

Abstract

The grammatical category of number is not, at least in Indo-European languages, directly linked to the action of counting or indicating an extralinguistic quantity. On the contrary, it is the expression of several semantic categories, including intensity (e.g. in Classical Latin) and collectivity (e.g. in the Italian -a plurals, derived from the Latin neuter). Its nature is therefore polyfunctional and multidimensional and cannot be identified a priori, deductively or on the basis of data from just one language or variety. In this pap Show more