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The aim of this paper is twofold. Firstly, we present a formal analysis of socalled indefinite “partitive articles” available in someModern Galloand Italoromance varieties. We put forward the idea that these are, sensu lato, a sort of nominal classifier and indicate non-individuation or mass in the singular, a value often considered to be the unmarked, default interpretation of nominals (cf. Borer 2005, 93). In a Pan-Romance perspective, “partitive articles” are in complementary distribution to unambiguous, agglutinative plural markers (like -s in Spanish amigo-s, ‘friend-s’), and lead to a mass reading of the respective nominal. We will argue that their existence is due to a (partial) diachronic loss of unambiguous number markers, that is, vocabulary items (vi) to express interpretable φ-features (number) on nouns and general agree requirements inside nominals (Stark 2008b; Mathieu 2009). We will follow Borer (2005, 93) in assuming identity for elements in complementary distribution across languages and argue that the de-element in Romance “partitive articles” realizes the same functional head as agglutinative plural morphemes. This leads to a strong generalization, namely that in Romance varieties or older stages of Romance languages with unambiguous (usually sigmatic) nominal plural marking, indefinite “partitive articles” in the singular, that is, mass determiners or classifiers, should not be available (cf. also Mathieu 2009, for Old French).1 Secondly, this generalizationwill be tested against 275Old Spanish occurrences of con del/de la/de los/de las ‘with of.the’ from the 13th–16th century stemming from the Corpus Diacrónico del Español (Corde) and the Corpus del Español

Why “Partitive Articles” Do Not Exist in (Old) Spanish