Pseudo-partitives and (silent) classifiers in Romanian

This paper addresses the question of classifiers in languages with plural morphology. I will propose that pseudo-partitives of the quantitative type (see Selkirk 1977) consist of a classifier-noun sequence, where the classifier is a semi-lexical or functional noun. The second section of my paper posits a classifier phrase for all languages. The ClasP will be conceived of as emerging above NumP in all 'count' situations (see Kayne 2003). The head of the ClasP in languages with plural morphology may be filled with semi-lexical material (see van Riemsdijk 1998, 2003) - as in the case of pseudopartitive constructions or, building on Kayne's (2003) proposal, with an abstract noun NUMBER.