This paper focuses on the status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a ‘partitive article’ nor a ‘partitive preposition’ in syntax. De in Romance indefinites is the overt Spell-Out of an abstract operator de that cancels the definiteness of articles and is responsible for indefiniteness. De in Romance partitives is the overt Spell-Out of a relator head that takes a definite DP as complement and a QP in the specifier position. Finally, pseudopartitivity is shown to have crosslinguistic parallels with indefinites, and it is derived by postulating a mono-projectional analysis in which a semilexical N selects for a de-phrase, in exactly the same way that quantifiers and cardinals select for indefinite de-phrases.

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De 在浪漫不定式、分词和伪分词中的地位*

本文重点讨论了德在罗曼语不定、分词和伪分词中的地位。它认为句法中既没有“部分冠词”也没有“部分介词”。De in Romance indefinites 是抽象运算符de的明显拼写，它取消了冠词的确定性并对不确定性负责。De in Romance Partitives 是一个明显的关系头的拼写，它将一个明确的 DP 作为补语，在说明符位置使用一个 QP。最后，伪共性被证明具有与不定词的跨语言相似性，它是通过假设一个单投影分析推导出来的，其中半词汇 N 选择一个de-短语，与量词和基数选择不定的去短语的方式完全相同。