This contribution seeks to add to our knowledge on ‘partitive articles’ (like the French element du in Je bois du vin, ‘I drink (some) wine’) in a highly endangered language spoken in France, Switzerland and Italy, namely Francoprovençal. Based on recent fieldwork data (2017) from the Aosta Valley and data from the ALAVAL atlas project, we will discuss outliers in a geographical and syntactic perspective, i.e. occurrences of ‘partitive articles’ where they should not appear. This either because the regions and their respective varieties do not feature them according to the existing literature or because syntactic regularities known from Standard French do not admit them (under the scope of negation and after quantifying expressions). We will try to propose some explanations for the existence of these unexpected elements, both internal and external, i.e. via language contact, and argue more generally in favour of a more systematic consideration of rare elements in fieldwork data, which should not too readily be “explained away”.

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Francoprovençal中的意外部分文章*

本文旨在增加我们对“部分文章”的了解（例如Je bois du vin中的法语元素du, '我喝（一些）酒'）在法国、瑞士和意大利使用的一种高度濒临灭绝的语言，即弗朗科普罗旺斯语。根据最近来自 Aosta Valley 的实地调查数据（2017 年）和来自 ALAVAL atlas 项目的数据，我们将从地理和句法的角度讨论异常值，即出现不应出现的“部分文章”。这要么是因为根据现有文献，这些地区及其各自的变体不具有它们的特征，要么是因为从标准法语中已知的句法规则不承认它们（在否定的范围内和量化表达之后）。我们将尝试对这些意想不到的元素的存在提出一些解释，包括内部和外部，即通过语言接触，