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Glossa, 2019 The paper offers a broad overview of several structures that fall under the umbrella term of “partitives”. It surveys previous analyses and proposes a treatment based on two null operators, PART% and PARTPRO, with different syntactic and semantic ...
Michelangelo Falco, Roberto Zamparelli
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Catalan Journal of LinguisticsThis introduction provides an overview of current research on partitivity. The contributions in this volume collectively address several persistent challenges in the analysis of partitivity, such as (i) the semantic underspecification of partitive ...
Anna Bartra Kaufmann +2 more
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The mass/count distinction in Japanese from the perspective of partitivity
Glossa, 2017 This article presents a novel set of observations concerning partitive constructions that indicate that bare nouns in Japanese can be marked with the singular/plural distinction, despite the absence of its overt morphological reflection. The new data set
Akira Watanabe
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The non-partitivity of Catalan and Italian nominal ne
Catalan Journal of LinguisticsIn this review article we discuss the main arguments in support of the hypothesis that in Contemporary Catalan and Italian nominal ne is neither a prepositional clitic, nor a partitive clitic nor a quantitative clitic.
M TERESA Espinal, Chiara Gianollo
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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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On nouns functioning as prepositions [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2012 This paper analyzes semantic transformations of nouns functioning as prepositions. The semantic characteristics of prepositions are discussed, and Belic’ concept of adverbial origin and meaning of prepositions is reviewed. Contrary to usual perception
Dragićević Rajna M.
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Partitivity and case marking in Turkish and related languages
Glossa, 2017 The paper discusses the conditions for case marking on partitive constructions in direct object position in Turkish and some related languages. We focus on Turkish and then turn to some details of corresponding constructions in some other Turkic ...
Jaklin Kornfilt, Klaus von Heusinger
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Two nouns in partitives: evidence from Japanese
Glossa, 2017 We consider the proposal that partitives always contain two positions for nouns which may be filled by silent material from the perspective of Japanese.
Kazuko Yatsushiro, Uli Sauerland
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The accusative morpheme -(y)i in Turkish and differential object marking in Romanian [PDF]
Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics, 2012 Romanian differentially marked object DPs and object DPs carrying the accusative morphological marker -(y)i in Turkish pattern alike in that they acquire a specific (D-linked / covert partitive) meaning.
Alina-Mihaela Tigău
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