En Pronominalization in French and the Structure of Nominal Expressions
En Pronominalization in French and the Structure of Nominal Expressions
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法语中的 En 代词化和名词性表达的结构
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2013
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Tabea Ihsane
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Tabea Ihsane
．在本文中，我处理了自20世纪70年代末以来在文献中争论不休的法语clitic en的句法来源问题（Kayne 1977和Milner 1978）。其目的不仅是找出en的代词，而且还提供了一种对名词表达的分析，能够解释(i)米尔纳（1978）所讨论的定量的、分的和属格的例子，以及（ii） du/des NPs仅在某些上下文中可以被en取代的事实。
. In this paper, I tackle the question of the syntactic source of the clitic en in French, debated in the literature since the late 1970s (Kayne 1977 and Milner 1978). The aim is not only to find out what en pronominalizes but also to provide an analysis of nominal expressions able to account for (i) the quantitative, partitive, and genitive examples discussed by Milner (1978) and for (ii) the fact that du/des NPs can be replaced by en in some contexts only.
What I suggest to account for the issues raised by en pronominalization is that quantitative nominals and du/des NPs have a unified structure that takes notions like number, quantity, and count/mass into account and that du/des NPs belong to different categories—that is, that their left periphery is composed differently. The idea is that, in addition to PPs, en can replace different layers of a nominal structure with an articulated left periphery and a fine-grained inflectional domain, in a cartographic spirit. The property underlying all uses of en could be their lack of referentiality, as observed by Gross (1973) for quantitative en.