Quantification in Old Italian

古意大利语的量化

• 批准号: 256240798
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Guido Mensching
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Romanische Sprachen und Literaturen
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2013-12-31 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/256240798?language=en
• 关键词: Quantification; Old; Italian

The aim of the project, implemented in April 2015, is to analyze the Old Italian (OI, =Old Florentine) quantifier system. This system is known (i) to diverge from the Modern Italian system and (ii) to display phenomena that are of a general theoretical interest. In the first part of the project (ending in March 2017), we have extracted around 4.200 examples containing the quantifiers niente, neuno, alcuno, veruno, tutto, nullo, nessuno from the OVI Corpus of Old Italian. These data were fed into data tables, classified, and analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. To give only a few examples of our results, which we presented in a large number of talks and one published article, we were able to analyze the use of cosa 'thing' as a kind of light noun combining with several quantifiers; alcuno 'some(one)' functioned as a negative polarity item in OI and interacted with negation and negative quantifiers in an intricate way. Our investigation of negative elements or n-words has shown that they can have different interpretations according to different structural positions. To understand these properties, we had to reexamine the mechanisms of negation in OI. In this context, we managed to show, among others, that what is usually described as Old Romance optional negative concord is only apparent in OI.As for the database under construction, we classified all data along a grid of certain syntactic and semantic properties of the quantifiers and the sentences in which they are embedded; these properties are expressed by a series of labels (tags). We have initiated a cooperation with G. Di Nunzio of the University of Padua, who is implementing our tagset into the database system used for the Syntactic Atlas of Italy (ASIt), and we are beginning to export our data to this system.The prolongation of the project aims at completing the empirical overview we started acquiring by gathering around 7.500 samples of the remaining quantifiers (mainly molto, parecchio; distributive quantifiers such as ogni, chiunque, ciascun, catun; and existential quantifiers of the type qual-X) and to implement them into the ASIt database system, together with the data we already have (goal 1). Thanks to the specific tagging we developed, these data will be evaluated to answer a large series of research questions concerning the syntax, the semantics and the pragmatics of OI quantifiers (goal 2). From the theoretical point of view, we aim at analyzing the internal structure of OI QPs, including issues of word-order alternations and discontinuity (goal 3), and at analyzing the internal structure of Q heads and the evolution of the OI quantifier system in general across the three periods we have defined (goal 4). Finally, we will investigate whether (and how) OI Qs can be analyzed compositionally (goal 5), and what changes have occurred so as to yield the MI system (goal 6).

该项目于2015年4月实施的目的是分析旧的意大利语（OI，=旧的佛罗伦萨）量词系统。该系统已知（i）与现代意大利系统和（ii）分歧，以显示具有一般理论利益的现象。在项目的第一部分（2017年3月结束）中，我们提取了大约4.200个示例，其中包含Niente，Neuno，Alcuno，Veruno，Veruno，Tutto，Nullo，Nullo，Nessuno，Nessuno，Nessuno，Nessuno，Nessuno，来自Ovi Old Italian的Ovi语料库。这些数据被馈送到数据表中，对数量和定性进行分类和分析。为了提供我们的结果的几个示例，我们在大量的演讲和一篇发表的文章中介绍了这些结果，我们能够分析使用COSA“事物”作为一种与多个量词相结合的光名词； Alcuno“某些（一个）”在OI中充当负极性项目，并以复杂的方式与否定和负量词相互作用。我们对负元素或n字的调查表明，根据不同的结构位置，它们可以具有不同的解释。要了解这些特性，我们必须重新检查OI中否定的机制。在这种情况下，我们设法证明了通常被描述为旧浪漫的可选负面协和康科德（Concord）仅在oi中显而易见，作为正在构建的数据库中，我们将所有数据分类为量词的某些语法和语义属性的网格，以及它们嵌入的句子；这些属性由一系列标签（标签）表示。我们已经与帕多瓦大学的G. di Nunzio合作，他将我们的标签集实施到用于意大利语法图集（ASIT）的数据库系统中，我们正在将数据导出到该系统中。该项目的延长旨在完成经验概述，我们旨在完成经验的跨越量的乘数，我们开始将其纳入byerter oferctie ofercepter of cathif offer of cathif offer of cathif offer of cathif offer of cathif offer of cathif offer of cathif offer of cathif offer of cathif offer of cathif offer， Parecchio;诸如OGNI，CHIUNQUE，CIASCUN，CATUN和类型Qual-X的生存量词）以及我们已经拥有的数据（目标1）。多亏了我们开发的特定标记，这些数据将得到评估，以回答有关语法，语义和OI量词的语用学的一系列研究问题（目标2）。从理论的角度来看，我们旨在分析OI QP的内部结构，包括单词订单交替和不连续性问题（目标3），以及分析Q头的内部结构以及在整个三个时期中总体上OI量化器系统的演变（目标4）（目标4）。最后，我们将研究是否可以通过组成分析（目标5）（目标5），以及发生了什么变化以产生MI系统（目标6）。