LiVVaL Linguaggio e Variazione | Variation in Language

Series | LiVVaL
Volume 3 | Edited book | Partitive Constructions and Partitive Elements Within and Across Language Borders in Europe

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

open access | peer reviewed
    edited by
  • Elvira Glaser - University of Zurich - email
  • Petra Sleeman - University of Amsterdam - email
  • Thomas Strobel - Goethe Universität Frankfurt - email
  • Anne Tamm - email

Abstract

The volume collects contributions that were presented at the PARTE workshop in Budapest in September 2022 or at the Partitive Online Talks, with the goal of investigating the universal and varying properties of partitive constructions and partitive elements. Since the expression of partitivity in Romance languages has been studied extensively, in this volume special attention is paid to other European languages, such as Germanic, Gaelic, Finno-Ugric and Slavic languages. With data from microvariation and variation that spans over vast geographical distances and involves various contact situations, this volume brings new insights into what is universal and what is particular in partitive constructions and elements in Europe.

Keywords Verb classesAdjectival inflectionERSubsetBody partsProper partitive constructionAspectual compositionGrammatical aspectDOMPossessive partitive markingBavarianIndefinite articleSupersetIrishAlemannicAbstract nounsPersonal numeralsIncremental themePartitive articleInvenitive strategiesPartitive pronounSlavicPostpositionsBelgian DutchLocus of possessive suffixesPseudo-partitive constructionCuidPartitive casePossessive agreementQuantifiersPartitive determinerNetherlandic DutchGermanKindsPartitionLocationalIndividuationPartitivesCorpus linguisticsMass nounExistentialGenitiveGermanicStandard languagePseudo-partitivePartitiveUralicPartitivityProper partitivesSubkinds

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-795-1 | e-ISBN 978-88-6969-795-1 | ISBN (PRINT) 978-88-6969-818-7 | Published May 16, 2024 | Language en