Partitive Constructions and Partitive Elements Within and Across Language Borders in Europe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Glaser, Elvira.

Series:

LiVVaL Series

LiVVaL Series ; v.3

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Syntax.

Comparative linguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Venice, Italy : Edizioni Ca' Foscari - Digital Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

This volume investigates the universal and varying properties of partitive constructions and elements in European languages. It explores the part-whole relationships encoded by partitives, examining their linguistic expressions, morphological and syntactic features, and diachronic evolution across various languages and dialects. Special attention is given to less-studied languages such as Germanic, Gaelic, Finno-Ugric, and Slavic, alongside comparative insights with Romance languages. The book includes contributions from researchers utilizing diverse linguistic frameworks and methods, shedding light on the variation and universality of partitive constructions within and across language borders. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Intro

3Preface

5Introduction

Partitive Constructions and Partitive Elements

21The Indefinite Article as an Exponent for Partition

57Pseudo-Partitives and Individuation

79Corpus Perspectives on Some Irish Gaelic (Pseudo-)Partitives

Possessive Partitive Strategies in Uralic

Evidence from Mari and Hungarian Quantifiers and Inflected Adpositions

129The Partitive Pronoun Er in Two National Varieties of Standard Dutch

155'I Am Also Found on Facebook'

Locuphoric 'Find'-Based Strategies in Finnish Internet Corpora

175Ukrainian Aspect and Object Case in ukTenTen

The Partitive Genitive of Perfective Verbs and Mass Nouns

225Index of Terms

231Index of Languages

1 Introduction

2 The SynAlm Project

2.1 Background

2.2 The Questionnaires

2.3 The Informants

2.4 The Results

3 The Phenomenon and Its Occurrence in Alemannic

3.1 The Distribution of the IA+Mass in Alemannic - a First Look

3.2 The IA+Mass as Replacement of Genitive Marking?

3.3 Doubling of the Indefinite Article

4 More Data

4.1 The Relevance of the Verbal Predicate - Kinds and Subkinds Again

4.2 Mass Nouns in Generic Statements

4.3 Varying the Verbal Predicate

5 Theoretical Discussion

6 Conclusion

2 Genitives and Pseudo-Partitives

2.1 The Genitive Problem

2.2 Genitive or Not?

3 Data Assessment and Reflections

3.1 Practical Considerations

3.2 The Survey

3.3 Some Further Comments

4 Theoretical Ramifications

5 Concluding Remarks

2 Corpus and Dictionaries Used

3 Discussion of the Structures, Presentation and Analysis of the Data

3.1 Quantifier + Glottonym in the Genitive (Describing the Degree of Knowledge of a Language) (type A)

3.2 Nouns Denoting Body Parts with Cuid 'Part, Portion' (Type B).

3.3 Personal Numerals in a Partitive Structure (Type C)

4 Conclusion

2 Cases and Adpositions (Postpositions) in Partitive Constructions in Uralic Languages

3 Possessive Agreement in Uralic Partitive Constructions: Subset Marking in Hungarian

4 Comparing the Possessive Strategies in Mari and Hungarian

5 Discussion

2 National Varieties of Standard Dutch

2.1 A Pluricentric Vision

2.2 The Partitive Pronoun ER in the Dutch Reference Grammar

3 Previous Research on the Use of Partitive ER In Various Contexts

3.1 Berends (2019)

3.2 Sleeman and Ihsane (2017

2020)

3.3 Cornips and Sleeman (Forthcoming)

4 Methodology

4.1 Test Materials

4.2 Participants and Procedure

4.3 Analysis

5 Results

6 Discussion

7 Conclusion

2 Background

2.1 Locational Constructions

2.2 The Use of löytyä as a Locational Copula

3 Material and Method

4 Results

4.1 Self-Advertisement in Internet Contexts

4.2 Permanent Versus Temporary Location

4.3 Mirative Marking

4.4 Other Uses

4.5 Competing Constructions

2 The Ukrainian Case System and Intensional Verbs (the "Genitive Verbs")

3 Aspect in Ukrainian

4 Methods

4.1.1 The Selection of the Verbs for the Analysis

4.1.2 The Selection of Nouns for the Analysis

7 Summary

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ISBN:

9788869697951

8869697959

OCLC:

1611811092