Partitivité
| Title in English | Partitivity |
|---|---|
| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Linguistica Pragensia |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Field | Linguistics |
| Keywords | partitivity; article partitive; partitive genitive; languages romanics |
| Description | The notion partitivity already appears in the Indo European declination s system in the genitive form with the partitive sense. During the divergent evolution of Indo European languages, some of them are coming to the analytical expression and the partitive genitive is replaced by the periphrastic locustion, the preposition de with the ablative, others replaced the partitive genitive by the accusative. So successively the partitive genitive died away in most of Indo-European languages. His functionality was saved in the contemporary language of Slavic and Baltic languages. The Romanic languages markedly reconstructed the Latin deictic system. The expression of the partitivity through the use of the prepositional union de+noun pass from the vulgar Latin to most of the Romanic languages. This also proves the fact that the partitive article or some comparable phenomenon, which expresses the partitivity, exists in the morfologic systems of the 5 Romanic languages: French, Italian, Sardinian, Provencal and Galician. In Portuguese and Spanish the partitivity is express formally through the zero article. |