Abstract In this article we analyze partitive objects under negation (NPOs) in the Northern Italian dialectal (NID) domain and discuss their diachronic and synchronic relation with both partitive constructions and partitive articles. We take into exam the areal distribution of the phenomenon, its syntactic variation and the different factors that regulate this variation. The main claim of the paper is that NPOs in the NIDs are a special type of grammaticalized partitive constructions, where negation licenses a silent quantifier and the preposition expresses extraction from a ‘whole’. In other words, the development of NPOs is similar to that of partitive articles, but they have not lost the partitive meaning. This explains why they appear only with plurals and singular mass nouns.

中文翻译：

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意大利北部方言中否定语境中的宾语

摘要在本文中，我们分析了意大利北部方言（NID）域中的否定式宾语（NPO），并讨论了它们与宾语结构和宾语的历时和同步关系。我们研究了现象的区域分布，其句法变化以及调节该变化的不同因素。该论文的主要主张是，NID中的NPO是一种特殊的语法化构成形式，其中否定许可使用无声量词，介词表示从“整个”中提取。换句话说，非营利组织的发展与分篇文章的发展类似，但是它们并没有失去分文的含义。这解释了为什么它们仅以复数形式和单数形式出现。