This book investigates the syntactic and semantic development of a selection of indefinite pronouns and determiners between Latin and the Romance languages. It uses data from Classical and Late Latin texts and from electronic corpora of early Romance to propose a new account of the similarities in the grammar of indefinites across Romance.

• 1: The grammar of indefinites: Functions, variation, and change


• 2: Specific and epistemic indefinites in Latin


• 3: Aliquis from Latin to Romance


• 4: Indefinites and negation in the history of Latin


• 5: Developments in negative and polarity-sensitive contexts from Latin to Romance


• 6: Conclusions

Chiara Gianollo is Senior Assistant Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Bologna. She obtained her MA and PhD from the University of Pisa and has held appointments as lecturer and researcher at the Universities of Trieste, Konstanz, Stuttgart, and Cologne. Her main research areas are diachronic syntax and semantics, with specific focus on the use of formal theoretical linguistics to investigate the history of Greek, Latin, and Old Romance. She is the co-editor, with Agnes Jäger and Doris Penka, of Language Change at the Syntax-Semantics Interface (de Gruyter 2015).