Determiners and Quantifiers

Chiara Gianollo is Associate Professor in General and Historical Linguistics at the University of Bologna. Her main research areas are diachronic syntax and semantics, with specific focus on the use of formal theoretical linguistics to investigate the history of Greek, Latin, and Old Romance. Klaus von Heusinger is Professor in General and German Linguistics at the University of Cologne. He works and publishes in theoretical and comparative linguistics with a focus on referential categories, such as (in)definiteness, specificity, and partitivity, and on Differential Object Marking in Germanic, Romance and Altaic languages. Maria Napoli is Associate Professor in General and Historical Linguistics at the University of Eastern Piedmont. She obtained her PhD at the University of Pisa (2003). She is the Author of several contributions mainly dealing with language change (in Indo-European languages), syntax-semantics interface, diachronic typology.

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1 Reference and Quantification in Nominal Phrases: The Current Landscape and the Way Ahead

 Chiara Gianollo, Klaus von Heusinger and Maria Napoli



2 Definite Plural Generics in English: Evidence from De-adjectival Nominalization

 Artemis Alexiadou



3 Quantification and Classification in Romance Plural Indefinites: From Number to Seinsart?

 Mario Squartini



4 Topics and the Interpretation of Referential Null Subjects

 Manuel Leonetti



5 Specificity and Questions of Specification

 Edgar Onea



6 Being Bare: A Survey of Quantifier Positions

 Cecilia Poletto



7 Indefinites as Fossils: The Case of wh-based Free Choice

 Maria Aloni



8 The Evaluative Meaning of the Indefinite qualunque in (Old) Italian

 Olga Kellert



9 Bare and Indefinite Nominal Predicates in the History of German

 Svetlana Petrova



Index of Subjects