Chiara Gianollo is Associate Professor in General and Historical Linguistics at the University of Bologna. 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.Klaus von Heusinger is Professor in General and German Linguistics at the University of Cologne. He works and publishes in theoretical and comparative linguistics with a focus on referential categories, such as (in)definiteness, specificity, and partitivity, and on Differential Object Marking in Germanic, Romance and Altaic languages.Maria Napoli is Associate Professor in General and Historical Linguistics at the University of Eastern Piedmont. She obtained her PhD at the University of Pisa (2003). She is the Author of several contributions mainly dealing with language change (in Indo-European languages), syntax-semantics interface, diachronic typology.

• PrefaceList of TablesNotes on ContributorsAbbreviations1 Reference and Quantification in Nominal Phrases: The Current Landscape and the Way AheadChiara Gianollo, Klaus von Heusinger and Maria Napoli2 Definite Plural Generics in English: Evidence from De-adjectival NominalizationArtemis Alexiadou3 Quantification and Classification in Romance Plural Indefinites: From Number to Seinsart?Mario Squartini4 Topics and the Interpretation of Referential Null SubjectsManuel Leonetti5 Specificity and Questions of SpecificationEdgar Onea6 Being Bare: A Survey of Quantifier PositionsCecilia Poletto7 Indefinites as Fossils: The Case of wh-based Free ChoiceMaria Aloni8 The Evaluative Meaning of the Indefinite qualunque in (Old) ItalianOlga Kellert9 Bare and Indefinite Nominal Predicates in the History of GermanSvetlana PetrovaIndex of Subjects