David Paul Gerards organized with Désirée Kleineberg the workshop “Präsenz und Virtualität von Determinierern in der Romania”, part of the Romanistentag 2023, which took place in Leipzig from 25-27 September 2023. Several PARTE-members presented their work on subjects related to partitivity, such as indefinites and bare nouns. https://www.romanistiktag.de/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Zeitplan-Sektion-4-Stand-04.08.pdf
Author: Petra Sleeman
New Special Issue on partitivity published
In 2023 a special issue was published of the journal Linguistic Variation with PARTE-members Silvia Luraghi and Petra Sleeman as the guest-editors: Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation. The special issue contains contributions of several PARTE-members (Open Access) and members of the extended PARTE-network.
Third PARTE workshop in Budapest
The third official PARTE workshop was held from 15 to 17 September 2022 at the Károli Gáspár University in Budapest. It was organized by PARTE-member Anne Tamm. The theme of the workshop was “Methods for approaching variation: partitives and beyond”. There were presentations by some of the PARTE-members and talks by members of the extended PARTE-network. Keynote speakers were Éva Dékány and Marcel den Dikken. There was also a poster session in which students from the Károli Gáspár University presented their research. The programme, the abstracts and the Powerpoint presentations are available on the workshop’s website.
Special Issue on partitivity published
In 2022 a special issue of Studia Linguistica (volume 76:1) was published with two members of the PARTE-network, Francesco Pinzin and Cecilia Poletto as the guest-editors: Partitive Articles and indefiniteness, micro and macrovariation. The special issue was published Open Access. It contains contributions by several PARTE-members.
New volume on partitivity published
In 2021 a new volume on partitivity was published by PARTE-members Giuliana Giusti and Petra Sleeman as the guest-editors: Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case. The volume was published by De Gruyter in the series Linguistische Arbeiten, volume 580. Thanks to additional funding by the Dutch Research Council NWO, which funds the PARTE-project as well, the volume could be published Open Access. The volume contains contributions by several PARTE-members.