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Conceptual Number in Bilingual Agreement Computation: Evidence from German Pseudo-Partitives [PDF]

Languages, 2023
During subject–verb agreement (SVA) computation, the conceptual or notional number of the subject can affect whether speakers choose a singular or a plural verb, potentially overriding the grammatical number of the subject’s head.
Jana Reifegerste, Ayse Garibagaoglu, Claudia Felser   +2 more
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Testing dialects with simulations : the status of pseudo-partitives in US English [PDF]

Linguistica Brunensia
This paper presents experimental evidence of direct pseudo-partitives being preferred with measure readings rather than container readings. While direct pseudo-partitives (e.g. two cups water) have been called register specific (i.e. cooking contexts), recent evidence has shown that they not only occur more broadly albeit relatively infrequently when ...
Kurt Erbach, Remus Gergel
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Two Dutch many ’s and the structure of pseudo-partitives [PDF]

Glossa, 2017
This article discusses the syntax and semantics of Dutch pseudo-partitive constructions with measure nouns, such as drie liter water ‘three liters of water’.
E.G. Ruys
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The syntax of individuating and measuring pseudo-partitives in Alasha Mongolian

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, 2023
AbstractPseudo-partitive constructions give rise to multiple interpretive ambiguities including a container interpretation (i.e. individuating) and a contents (i.e. measuring) one. There are two competing analyses: one based on structural ambiguities (Landman in Indefinites and the types of sets, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004; Rothstein in ...
Luis MIGUEL Toquero-Pérez
exaly   +2 more sources

Direct pseudo-partitives in US English

Linguistics Vanguard: Multimodal Online Journal
Abstract We present a corpus study looking at direct and indirect pseudo-partitives in US English and show that not only is there regular use of direct pseudo-partitives, but there is only positive evidence of their use with measure/portion readings as opposed to container+contents readings.
Remus Gergel
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Corpus Perspectives on Some Irish Gaelic (Pseudo-)Partitives

Irish Gaelic is rich in partitive and pseudo-partitive structures, and this paper intends to discuss certain variational aspects of some of these based on corpus and lexicographical data. The structures to be covered are the following: (Type A) Quantifier + glottonym in the genitive; (Type B) Nouns denoting body parts with cuid ʻpart, portion’; and ...
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Pseudo-Partitives and Individuation A Study on Adnominal Genitives in German

Pseudo-partitives in German do not normally allow genitive marking of the inner nominal, but in the presence of an adjective this is possible. But even then, it is usually a marked option. It has been suggested that genitive marking is the preferred option if the inner nominal is plural.
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Pseudo-partitives in English: an HPSG analysis

English Language and Linguistics, 2022
Pseudo-partitives are strings of the form [N1– of – N2] in which N1denotes a quantity or amount of whatever it is that N2denotes and in which N2is a bare nominal. Such strings come in two types, depending on whether the combination shares thenumbervalue of N1or N2. The first type can be analyzed along familiar lines, but the second one is a hard nut to
FRANK VAN EYNDE, JONG-BOK KIM
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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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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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