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Partitive descriptions in Korean

Glossa, 2017
This paper examines Korean partitive constructions to investigate the typology of the partitive structure. In Korean, a quantifier precedes the nominal in a non-partitive, but it follows the nominal in a partitive. The relative order between a quantifier
Keun Young Shin
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Investigations into children's acquisition of the partitive structure

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2008
Recent literature suggests that children’s acquisition of DP is a process of gradual feature acquisition (Roeper 2006). This study looks at the acquisition of DP’s barrier feature from the perspective of the acquisition of the syntax of the English ...
Helen Stickney
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Des N comme partitif nu

Corela, 2023
Recent synchronic and diachronic studies agree on the fact that ‘article-like’ des in French (henceforth desal) should not receive a partitive analysis.
Bert Le Bruyn, Janine Berns
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Towards a typology of morphological case

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2007
Adposition phrases in morphologically impoverished languages have a function similar to nouns with morphological cases in morphologically rich languages, leading some researchers to argue that at least some cases belong to the category P. The aim of this
Anna Asbury
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A corpus study of grammatical case forms in written and spoken Estonian: Frequency, distribution and grammatical role

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2023
In this paper, we present the results of a corpus study investigating the distribution of the three grammatical cases in Estonian (nominative, genitive, partitive) and the factors affecting the interpretation of syntactic role for nouns marked in ...
Merilin Miljan, Virve Vihman
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Referentiality and the Noun

Hermes, 2011
This paper argues that nouns and names, as such, do not refer. Apparently-referring nouns and names have been converted lexically to determiners. Thus nouns and names participate in reference by virtue of dependency on a determiner, either in the syntax,
John Anderson
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Existential Constructions, Definiteness Effects, and Linguistic Contact: At the Crossroads between Spanish and Catalan

Languages, 2023
Existential sentences in Spanish are sensitive to the definiteness or quantification restriction or effect, which prevents personal pronouns, proper nouns, and definite constituents from occupying the pivot position.
Jorge Agulló
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Differential Object Marking in Modern Hebrew: Definiteness and partitivity

Glossa, 2021
This paper investigates the phenomenon of differential object marking (DOM) currently exhibited in Modern Hebrew. The consensus in the theoretical literature on Hebrew has been that the object marker et is only licensed in the context of definite DPs. We
Aviya Hacohen, Dana Plaut, Olga Kagan
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The accusative/genitive alternation in Bosnian/ Croatian/Serbian

Glossa, 2022
There is an ongoing discussion in the literature on how the meaning conveyed by (in)definite determiners is expressed in languages which lack an (in)definite article system (see e.g., Chierchia 1998; Dayal 2004; Deal 2017). One proposal is that in Slavic
Agata Renans, Halima Husić
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Vadinamųjų kiekio kilmininkų valdymas ir semantika

Baltistica, 2011
GENITIVE OF QUANTITY: GRAMMATICAL GOVERNMENT AND SEMANTICSSummaryGenitives governed by lexical units of quantity and partitive genitives are used in the same syn­tactical positions, that of the subject and that of the direct object.
Vitas Labutis
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