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Why partitive? Possible motivations for the partitive complement of Finnic adpositions [PDF]

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri
Adpositions localize an entity (Figure) with respect to another entity (Ground), designated by the complement of the adposition. Most Finnic adpositions are postpositions with a genitive Ground, while prepositions typically have a partitive Ground ...
Tuomas Huumo
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Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case [PDF]

, 2022
One important function of the Finnish partitive case is the expression of unbounded quantity. An unbounded quantity can consist of a homogeneous substance, expressed by a mass noun in the partitive singular, or of a multiplicity, expressed by the ...
Huumo Tuomas
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Quotative and partitive models of division

, 2021
Quotative (grouping) and partitive (sharing) models of ...
Colin Foster (6064118)
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Rethinking case marking and case alternation in Estonian [PDF]

, 2013
In this paper, we argue for a view of case marking that does not treat case as the passive realisation of other morpho-syntactic properties of a construction but as independently bringing information to a clause.
Merilin Miljan, Ronnie Cann, Miljan, Merilin, Cann, Ronnie   +3 more
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Partitivity in Italian

, 2021
This paper claims that “partitive” is a cover term for at least four types of syn-tactic constructions and provides diagnostics to distinguish among (i) partitive structures instantiated by a quantifier selecting two ...
Giusti, Giuliana, Giuliana Giusti
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The Finnish partitive in counting and measuring constructions [PDF]

, 2020
This paper proposes a compositional semantic analysis for the use of the partitive case in counting and measuring constructions in Finnish. Count nouns in counting construc- tions are partitive singular but partitive plural in measure constructions. Mass
Sutton, Peter R., Little, Carol-Rose
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A Question of Case

Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, 2004
In this paper I investigate a seemingly optional variation between accusative and partitive case in Finnish in yes/no questions and certain kinds of negative contexts.
Elsi Kaiser
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Strategies of Indefiniteness Marking in Central Sicilian—Evidence from the Dialect of Delia

Languages, 2023
This paper is meant as a contribution to the research project on variation and optionality in the determiner system in Italo-Romance, with novel data from the Sicilian dialect of Delia. The study is based on fieldwork interviews and the construction of a
Vincenzo Nicolò Di Caro
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Moni or monta? The collective vs. distributive opposition between two forms of the quantifier ‘many’ in Finnish

Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2017
In this work I explore the semantics of two case forms of the Finnish quantifier moni ‘many’: the regular nominative moni and the regular partitive monta [mon-ta many-PARTITIVE], which however has taken on a function similar to that of the nominative of ...
Tuomas Huumo
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Partitive hypergraphs [PDF]

, 1981
We define a new class of hypergraphs (partitive hypergraphs) which generalizes both, the set of all externally related subsets of a graph and the set of all committees of an hypergraph.We give a characterization of the partitive hypergraphs and moreover ...
Chein, M., Maurer, M.C., Habib, M.
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