… This chapter treats partitive constructions and the relation between the genitive and the
partitive from a crosslinguistic perspective, showing that in Universal Grammar the partitive and …

… B&C show that it is reasonable to interpret all of the NPs which are acceptable in partitive …
in a partitive construction is the core or generator set of the denotation of the NP in the partitive …

… of partitive constructions, eg three of his booh, in the framework of Kayne's (1994) Antisymmetry
Theory.W e will argue that the partitive construction … ) for the possessive construction (2). …

… a different type of partitive construction and that the acceptability … that this kind of partitive
construction is different indeed, and … section I will propose an analysis of partitive constructions …

… argue in favor of considering them to belong to a single construction. In section 3 I will examine
two revisions of the Partitive Constraint which have been suggested in the literature, and …

… Apart from the Partitive Constraint on the embedded determiner within a partitive construction,
it is well-known that the upstairs determiners in partitive constructions are also subject to …

… those above are often referred to as partitive constructions, here I will follow the … partitive
(such as in Example (1)) and pseudo-partitive (such as in Example (2)) (nominal) constructions/…

… constructions) with an NP that resembles the partitive subject to a lesser or a greater extent.
The partitive … for the range of use of the partitive subject in both languages, and compare the …

… of quantifying expressions in partitive A phrases reflects a structural analogy with (pseudo)
partitive constructions where a nominative head is followed by a partitive modifier (eg ‘a …

… As her conclusions are most interesting if set in the framework of the diachronic development
of indefiniteness markers from partitive constructions, we will leave the issue for the time …