La heterogeneidad estructural de las pseudopartitivas en español

Abstract

The classic difference between partitive and pseudo-partitive constructions (Selkirk 1977) is fully stablished in today’s linguistics. In the literature, however, they do not notice that the group of pseudo-partitives ―as it has been described in grammatical studies of Spanish― is heterogeneous from a structural point of view. The aim of this paper is to show that two radically different syntactic schemes underlie the label of pseudo-partitives. This systematic lack of differentiation is because of the fact that both structures have the same distribution of semantic-pragmatic components: a quantifier and a quantified (in that order) plus the preposition de in between (‘quantifier + de + quantified’).