This paper explores the coding patterns of partitives and their functional extensions, based
on a convenience sample of 138 languages from 46 families from all macroareas. Partitives …

This paper claims that “partitive” is a cover term for at least four types of syntactic
constructions and provides diagnostics to distinguish among (i) partitive structures …

This paper focuses on the status of de in Romance indefinites, partitives and
pseudopartitives. It argues that there is neither a 'partitive article'nor a 'partitive preposition'in …

The paper looks at size nouns of the type grămadă 'heap/pile'in Romanian and classifies
them into two categories: size nouns with a comparative interpretation (Doetjes and Rooryck …

Résumé De même que le lexique peut désigner certaines entités en distinguant leur totalité
de leurs parties, la grammaire permet d'actualiser une catégorie sémantique dans le …

The chapter focuses on those quantity words that combine with a nominal expression. It
distinguishes three main classes: quantifiers proper, quantity adjectives, and semi-lexical …

The present paper investigates punctual vs. habitual readings of Romanian proper temporal
names of the type luni 'Monday'vs. lunea 'Monday. def'. These readings are associated with …

In this work, we investigate partitivity marking in spoken and sign languages, focusing on the
locative and ablative strategies. We aim to extend the typology of partitive constructions by …

This study presents Romanian bare partitives (BPs) in contrast to other bare partitive
constructions and it shows that they share features with generalized partitives. The study …

The current study looks at agreement with collective nouns with functional heads (such as
mulţime 'multitude'/multitude) and semi-lexical heads (such as poliţie 'police'/police) in …