Publications
"Distributive numerals in Albanian." Journal of Linguistics 60 (2024): 889-919.
Rushiti Dobrovie-Sorin distributive-numerals-in-albanian.pdf (325.44 KB)
Rushiti Dobrovie-Sorin distributive-numerals-in-albanian.pdf (325.44 KB) "Comparatives, superlatives and definiteness in Romance." Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali 9 (2023): 97-116.
"A Quantificational-Determiner Analysis of EST in Relative Superlatives." Annali di Ca’ Foscari. Serie occidentale 57 (2023): 131-152. relative superlatives Ca Foscari.pdf (616.69 KB)
relative superlatives Ca Foscari.pdf (616.69 KB) "Passives of unergatives and ergative marking." In Building on Babel's Rubble, 167-191. Nora Boneh, Daniel Harbour, Ora Matushansky, Isabelle Roy ed. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, collection Sciences du langage, 2022. Passives of Unergatives and Ergative Mark-article-final_vfin.pdf (604.95 KB)
Passives of Unergatives and Ergative Mark-article-final_vfin.pdf (604.95 KB) "On the rescuing of PPIs: some-NPs vs. some-pronouns in English." In A life in linguistics. A festschrift for Alexandra Cornilescu on her 75th birthday, edited by Gabriela Alboiu, Daniela Isac, Alexandru Nicolae, Mihaela Tànase-Dogaru and Alina Tigàu, 217-227. Editura Universitàtii din Bucuresti, 2022.
"Implicit agents and the person constraint on SE passives." In Unraveling the complexity of SE, edited by Grant Armstrong and Jonathan MacDonald, 111-135. Springer, 2021.
"(In)definiteness in the Relative Readings of Quality and Quantity Superlatives." Scolia 35 (2021): 15-37.
Majority quantification and quantity superlatives: A crosslinguistic analysis of most. Vol. 77. Oxford University Press, 2021. Dobrovie-Sorin-Giurgea-Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives_Print.pdf (1.98 MB)
Dobrovie-Sorin-Giurgea-Majority Quantification and Quantity Superlatives_Print.pdf (1.98 MB) "Proportional Many/Much and Most." In Countability in Natural Language, edited by Hana Filip, 14-51. Cambridge University Press, 2021.
"Superlatives and Definiteness in Albanian." Scolia 35 (2021): 125-140.
"Negation, des-indefinites in French and bare nouns across languages." In Disentangling Bare Nouns and Nominals Introduced by a Partitive Article, edited by Ihsane Tabea, 186-225. Brill, 2020. DobrovieSorin-NegationdesIndefinitesFrench-2021.pdf (363.61 KB)
DobrovieSorin-NegationdesIndefinitesFrench-2021.pdf (363.61 KB) "Reflexive-marking in Romance: Voice and feature deficiency." In The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Syntax, Second Edition, edited by Martin Everart and Henk van Riemsdijk. Everaert, M., & Van Riemsdijk, H. ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
Why are distributive readings dispreferred In Going Romance. Vol. Going Romance 2015., 2016.
Partitive MOST in English and Romanian In Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT), Edited by Sarah D'Antonio, Mary Moroney and Carol Rose Little. 25th ed. Stanford: Linguistic Society of America, 2015.
Two Types of Most In Semantics and Linguistic Theory. Vol. SALT 2015., 2015.
"Weak Reference and Semantic Incorporation." In The Syntax and Semantics of Pseudo-Incorporation, edited by Olga Borik and Berit Gehrke. Vol. Syntax & Semantics 40. Leiden: Brill, 2015.
Collective quantification and the homogeneity constraint In Semantics and Linguistic Theory. Vol. 24., 2014.
Distributive and collective readings of plural DPs In AMLaP. Edinburgh, Ecosse, 2014.
Why are distributive readings dispreferred? In Going Romance. Lisbonne, 2014.
"A Reference Grammar of Romanian." In Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 900. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2013.
"Strong Indefinites are not Quantificational." Revue roumaine de linguistique (2013): 401-417. RRL 4 2013 art05Dobrovie.pdf (295.4 KB)
RRL 4 2013 art05Dobrovie.pdf (295.4 KB) "Nominal and Pronominal Possessors in Romanian." In Genitive Case and Genitive Construction, edited by Anne Carlier and Jean-Christophe Verstraete. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 2012.
"Redefining Indefinites." In Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, 270. Springer, 2012.
The Agreement of Collective DPs in Romanian In Romance Linguistics 2010. Selected papers from the 40th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Edited by Julia Herschensohn. Seattle: John Benjamins, 2011.
Partitive and Distributive Quantifiers. Rio de Janeiro, Brésil, 2011.
"Pronominal possessors and Feature Uniqueness." Language 87 (2011): 126-157.
"Bare Nouns in the Romance Languages." In Fundamental Issues in the Romance Languages, edited by Danièle Godard, 221-262. Stanford: CSLI, 2010.
Building number neutral NPs In Bare Nouns and Genericity. Paris, 2010.
Count Bare Singulars: From Pluralization to Unspecified Cardinality In Countability 2010. Bochum, 2010.
Generic Bare Singulars in Brazilian Portuguese In Romance Linguistics 2008. Interactions in Romance. Selected papers from the 38th Linguistic Symposium on Romance Languages (LSRL), Edited by Karlos Arregi, Zsuzsanna Fagyal, Silvina Montrul and Annie Tremblay. Urbana Champaign: John Benjamins, 2010.
"Number Neutral Amounts and Pluralities in Brazilian Portuguese." Journal of Portuguese Linguistics 9 (2010): 53-74.
Number neutrality In Conference of the English Department. Bucarest, 2010.
Weak Indefinites : From Properties to Amounts In Workshop NIAS., 2010.
Amounts and Pluralities In Bare Nominals and Indefinites. Florianopolis, 2009.
"Existential bare plurals : from properties back to entities." Lingua 119 (2009).
Number neutrality In Converging Linguistics and Cognitive Science : Nominal Systems across Languages. Barcelone, 2009.
Plural Predication and Generic Plural Indefinites In Genius Conference. Paris, 2009.
Predication and Identity in Copular Sentences In LSRL. Tucson, Arizona, 2009.
Predication and Identity in Copular Sentences In Glow in Asia. Hyderabad (Inde), 2009.
Pronominal possessors and Feature Uniqueness In LSRL. Tucson, Arizona, 2009.
Bare NPs in Copular Sentences In Conference of the English Department. Bucarest, 2008.
"Clitic Doubling, Complex Heads and Interarboreal Operations." In Clitic Doubling in the Balkans, edited by D. Kalluli and Lilianne Tasmowski. John Benjamins, 2008.
Generic Bare Singulars in Brazilian Portuguese In LSRL. Urbana Champaign, 2008.
Pronominal possessors and Feature Uniqueness In 18th Colloquium on Generative Grammar. Lisbonne, 2008.
Pronominal possessors and Feature Uniqueness In Incontro de Grammatica Generativa. Padoue, 2008.
Reference to kinds in Brazilian Portuguese: definite singulars vs bare singulars In Proceedings of SuB 12, Edited by Atle Grønn. Oslo: Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages, University of Oslo, 2008.
"Article drop and extended heads." In Pitar Mos : a building with a view. In Honor of Alexandra Cornilescu, edited by Gabriela Alboiu, Andrei Avram, Larisa Avram and Dana Isac, 99-107. Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2007.
Constraints on quantificational domains : generic plural des indefinites in French In Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 11. Barcelona: Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2007.
Contraintes syntaxiques sur l’agentivité implicite : l’interprétation des verbes en SE dans les langues romanes In Représentation du sens, Actes du Colloque Montréal 2003, Edited by Denis Bouchard, Ivan Evrard and Etleva Vocaj. Bruxelles: de Boeck-Duculot, 2007.
Generic Plural Indefinites : Sums or Groups ? In Proceedings of NELS 37., 2007.
"Prépositions et chute de l’article défini en roumain." In Studii lingvistice. Omagiu Profesoarei Gabriela Pana Dindelegan, la aniversare. Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti, 2007.
Reference to kinds in Brazilian Portuguese: definite singulars vs bare singulars In Sinn und Bedeutung. Oslo, 2007.
Reference to kinds in Brazilian Portuguese: definite singulars vs bare singulars In Nominal and Verbal Plurality. Paris, 2007.
Reference to kinds in Brazilian Portuguese: definite singulars vs bare singulars In Glow in Asia. Hong Kong, 2007.
"Impersonal se Constructions in Romance and the Passivization of Unergatives." Linguistic Inquiry 29, no. 3 (1998): 399-437.
The syntax of Romanian: Comparative studies in Romance. Walter de Gruyter, 1994.
"Clitic doubling, wh-movement, and quantification in Romanian." Linguistic inquiry 21 (1990): 351-397.
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