This introductory paper provides an overview of the main phenomena investigated in this Special Issue, such as the relation between the encoding of indefinites and the presence of genitive and definite markers, the relation between partitivity and indefiniteness and the distribution of these phenomena in minority, or “micro”, varieties – such as Italian dialects, Galloromance varieties, North and South Saami – compared to the distribution of the same phenomena in majority, or “macro”, varieties – such as French, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Estonian, Finnish, Czech and Serbian. The second part of the paper, then, provides an overview of the content of each original paper collected in the special issue.

中文翻译：

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部分冠词和不定冠词，微观和宏观变化

这篇介绍性论文概述了本期特刊中研究的主要现象，例如不定词的编码与属格和定标记的存在之间的关系，部分性和不定性之间的关系以及这些现象在少数群体中的分布，或“微观”变体——如意大利方言、Galloromance 变体、南萨米语和南萨米语——与大多数相同现象或“宏观”变体的分布相比——如法语、意大利语、西班牙语、巴西葡萄牙语、爱沙尼亚语、芬兰语、捷克语和塞尔维亚语。然后，论文的第二部分概述了特刊中收集的每篇原始论文的内容。