This volume, edited by Tabea Ihsane, focuses on different aspects of the distribution, semantics, and internal structure of nominal constituents with a “partitive article” and of potentially corresponding bare nouns, in a crosslinguistic perspective.

List of Figures and Tables Glosses and Abbreviations 1 Introduction  Tabea Ihsane 2 The Rise and Fall of Partitive Markers in Some Germanic Varieties  Thomas Strobel and Elvira Glaser 3 Bound To Be? Bare and Partitive-Marked Noun Phrases in Romance Languages and the Emergence of Prominence-Conditioned Patterns  Hagay Schurr 4 Why “Partitive Articles” Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish  David Paul Gerards and Elisabeth Stark 5 Predicates of Personal Taste and Pancake Sentences in Brazilian Portuguese and French  Fabienne Martin, Janayna Carvalho and Artemis Alexiadou 6 Negation, des-Indefinites in French and Bare Nouns across Languages  Carmen Dobrovie-Sorin 7 Telicity, Specificity, and Complements with a Plural “Partitive Article” in French  Tabea Ihsane 8 A Protocol for Indefinite Determiners in Italian and Italo-Romance  Giuliana Giusti 9 “Partitive Articles” in Aosta Valley Francoprovençal—Old Questions and New Data  Elisabeth Stark and David Paul Gerards Index