Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case: 580 (Linguistische Arbeiten, 580) - Hardcover

Giusti; Giuliana; Sleeman; Petra

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3110737299 ISBN 13: 9783110737295

Publisher: De Gruyter, 2021

Synopsis

Although the interest in the concept of partitivity has continuously increased in the last decades and has given rise to considerable advances in research, the fine-grained morpho-syntactic and semantic variation displayed by partitive elements across European languages is far from being well-described, let alone well-understood. There are two main obstacles to this: on the one hand, theoretical linguistics and typological linguistics are fragmented in different methodological approaches that hinder the full sharing of cross-theoretic advances; on the other hand, partitive elements have been analyzed in restricted linguistic environments, which would benefit from a broader perspective. The aim of the PARTE project, from which this volume stems, is precisely to bring together linguists of different theoretical approaches using different methodologies to address this notion in its many facets.
This volume focuses on Partitive Determiners, Partitive Pronouns and Partitive Case in European languages, their emergence and spread in diachrony, their acquisition by L2 speakers, and their syntax and interpretation. The volume is the first to provide such an encompassing insight into the notion of partitivity.

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About the Author

Petra Sleeman, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Giuliana Giusti, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy.

Edition details

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110737299
• ISBN 13: 9783110737295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 330