Partitive Cases and Related Categories.

Partitive Cases and Related Categories.

Argument-marking, morphological partitives have been the topic of language specific studies, while no cross-linguistic or typological analyses have been conducted. Since individual partitives of different languages have been studied, there exists a basis for a more cross-linguistic approach. The pur...

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Main Author: Luraghi, Silvia
Other Authors: Huumo, Tuomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, 2014.
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology EALT.
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Partitives.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Prepositions.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > General.
Grammar, Comparative and general > Partitives
Grammar, Comparative and general > Prepositions
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction / Luraghi, Silvia ; Huumo, Tuomas
  • 1. Typology and diachrony of partitive case markers / Luraghi, Silvia ; Kittilä, Seppo
  • 2. Partitives and negation: a cross-linguistic survey / Miestamo, Matti
  • 3. The Partitive Concept versus Linguistic Partitives: From Abstract Concepts to Evidentiality in the Uralic Languages / Tamm, Anne
  • 4. Partitives across constructions: on the range of uses of the Finnish and Estonian "partitive subjects" / Huumo, Tuomas ; Lindström, Liina
  • 5. Partitive noun phrases in the Estonian core argument system / Metslang, Helena
  • 6. Finnish Partitive and resultativity in translation(s): a discourse-cognitive approach / Fernandez-Vest, M.M. Jocelyne
  • 7. The definite article and the partitive particle in Basque: dialectal variation / Etxeberria, Urtzi
  • 8. The origin of the Basque partitive / López, Borja Ariztimuño
  • 9. The second genitive in Russian / Daniel, Michael
  • 10. The Russian partitive and verbal aspect / Paykin, Katia
  • 11. Double government in Polish: a case study / Tabakowska, Elżbieta
  • 12. Partitive Subjects and Objects in Indo-Iranian and beyond / Dahl, Eystein
  • 13. The Ancient Greek partitive genitive in typological perspective / Conti, Luz ; Luraghi, Silvia
  • 14. The grammaticalization of the prepositional partitive in Romance / Carlier, Anne ; Lamiroy, Béatrice
  • 15. Partitives in Oceanic languages / Budd, Peter
  • Subject index
  • Author index.

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