Functional Entities -and that ain't the half of it!
Ojeda, Almerindo E. (University of California. Linguistics Department)

Date:	2004
Abstract:	Like many other languages, Spanish may specify fractionary nouns with definite articles (cf. la mitad). This fact seems to violate the presupposition of uniqueness generally assigned to the definite article, as no fraction may exist without another one (halves, in particular, come in pairs). But this violation is only apparent-at least if we assume that these fractionary nouns denote fractioning operations (rather than the results thereof) and occur in partitive (rather than attributive) constructions. These proposals can be justified independently, and extend to numeral noun constructions that did not survive into Contemporary Spanish.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Definite article ; Presupposition of uniqueness ; Fractionary nouns ; Numeral nouns ; Partitive construction ; Attributive construction ; Logical types ; Mixed types ; Logical sorts ; Mixed sorts ; Sorted domains ; Romance ; Spanish ; Catalan ; Italian ; French ; Latin ; Greek ; German ; Breton ; English
Published in:	Catalan journal of linguistics, V. 3 (2004) , p. 135-146, ISSN 2014-9719

Adreça original: https://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/v3-ojeda
Adreça alternativa: https://raco.cat/index.php/CatalanJournal/article/view/309009
DOI: 10.5565/rev/catjl.108

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