Partitive Cases and Related Categories / / ed. by Silvia Luraghi, Tuomas Huumo.

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2014]
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Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Empirical Approaches to Language Typology [EALT] , 54
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Physical Description:1 online resource (572 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • I. Typological aspects
  • 1. Typology and diachrony of partitive case markers
  • 2. Partitives and negation: a cross-linguistic survey
  • II. Uralic languages
  • 3. The Partitive Concept versus Linguistic Partitives: From Abstract Concepts to Evidentiality in the Uralic Languages
  • 4. Partitives across constructions: on the range of uses of the Finnish and Estonian “partitive subjects”
  • 5. Partitive noun phrases in the Estonian core argument system
  • 6. Finnish Partitive and resultativity in translation(s): a discourse-cognitive approach
  • III Basque
  • 7. The definite article and the partitive particle in Basque: dialectal variation
  • 8. The origin of the Basque partitive
  • IV Slavic languages
  • 9. The second genitive in Russian
  • 10. The Russian partitive and verbal aspect
  • 11. Double government in Polish: a case study
  • V Historical perspectives on Indo-European languages
  • 12. Partitive Subjects and Objects in Indo-Iranian and beyond
  • 13. The Ancient Greek partitive genitive in typological perspective
  • 14. The grammaticalization of the prepositional partitive in Romance
  • VI Oceanic languages
  • 15. Partitives in Oceanic languages
  • Subject index
  • Author index