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First partitivity workshop in November 2017 in Venice

The first PARTE workshop was organized by Giuliana Giusti on 15-16 November 2017 at the University Ca’ Foscari in Venice. The invited speakers were Anne Carlier and Urtzi Etxeberria (CNRS, Bayonne). The theme of the workshop was partitive determiners and partitive Case. Among the selected speakers there were several members of the PARTE network. The interest of this workshop was that partitivity was discussed from various perspectives (diachronic, synchronic, acquisition), for different languages, languages types and dialects (French, Italian, Basque, Turkic, Finnish, Greek, Catalan, German, Estonian) and for different types of partitivity (partitive determiners, partitive case marking, partitive pronouns, pseudo-partitives …

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Workshop Leipzig

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 

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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.

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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.  

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Two volumes on partitivity published

In 2020 two volumes on partitivity were published, edited by PARTE members, and with Open Access contributions of several PARTE members: Tabea Ihsane and Elisabeth Stark (eds.), Shades of Partitivity: formal and areal properties. Special Issue of Linguistics, volume 58, issue 3.  Tabea Ihsane (ed.), Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article. Syntax and Semantics 43. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. 

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PARTE workshop Seville (cancelled), June 2021

PARTE planned to organize the workshop Variation in the Expression of Partitivity and Partitive Expressions as part of the postponed conference CILG 2021 (the 14th International Conference of General Linguistics), 23-25 June 2021, Seville, Spain, with PARTE-members Urtzi Etxeberria, Tabea Ishane, Ilja Seržant, Petra Sleeman, and Anne Tamm as the convenors. Due to the pandemic, the convenors decided to cancel the workshop.

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Second partitivity workshop in Pavia on 2 September 2019

On 2 September our second partitivity workshop was organized in Pavia, by PARTE member Silvia Luraghi. The title of the workshop was “Partitive cases, pronouns and determiners: diachrony and variation”. The keynote speakers were Michael Daniel (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow) and Riho Grünthal (University of Helsinki). The workshop took place in the Collegio Cardano. Most of the PARTE members were part of the scientific committee and/or presented their recent research at the workshop. The call for proposals was not limited to PARTE members, which has led to a very interesting mixed program. The program of the …

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Second network meeting in Zurich on 25 and 26 January 2019

The second PARTE network meeting took place on 25 and 26 January 2019 at the University of Zurich. This meeting was organized by Elisabeth Stark, Elvira Glaser, Tabea Ihsane and Jan Davatz. The network meeting consisted of two parts: practical workshops and scientific presentations. The practical workshops on 25 January were a follow-up of the first network meeting, which took place in May 2018 in Amsterdam, and in which the setting up of a partitivity database was discussed. After the first network meeting the University of Zurich started to create the partitivity database. The goal of the practical workshops during …

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First network meeting in Amsterdam on 25-26 May 2018

On 25 and 26 May 2018 the first PARTE network meeting took place at the Meertens Institute and at the University of Amsterdam. The meeting was organized by PARTE members Leonie Cornips and Petra Sleeman. During the first day of the meeting protocols and questionnaires for the analysis and elicitation of partitive elements were presented and discussed. Giuliana Giusti gave an ACLC lecture on protocols for partitive determiners at the University of Amsterdam. The first part of the second day was devoted to the setting up of a partitivity database. We were very grateful that Sjef Barbiers, Marjo van Koppen, …

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