Partitive descriptions in Korean

Partitive Case and Aspect

Current theories make a distinction between two types of case, STRUCTURAL case and INHERENT (or LEXICAL) case (Chomsky 1981), similar to the older distinction between GRAMMATICAL and SEMANTIC case (Kuryłowicz 1964).1 Structural case is assumed to be assigned at S-structure in a purely configurational way, whereas inherent case is assigned at D-structure in possible dependence on the governing p...

Partitive Doubling in Icelandic and Appalachian English∗

The Partitive Constraint in Optimality Theory

This paper discusses a case of syntax/semantics interaction of a characteristically optimality-theoretic kind. Finnish partitive constructions exhibit a case alternation that is partly semantically, partly syntactically driven. The crucial semantic condition that plays a role in case selection is quantitative determinacy, which replaces the de niteness condition familiar from the Partitive Cons...

Rethinking Structural Case: Partitive Case in Sakha

The Sakha language has a special partitive case used only on nonspecific direct objects in imperative sentences. This is neither a canonical structural case, nor a canonical inherent case. We show that its basic properties can be explained within a configurational case theory by assuming that partitive is unmarked case assigned to any NP within the VP complement of vImp, a special v head found ...

Weakly partitive families on infinite sets

Given a finite or infinite set S and a positive integer k, a binary structure B of base S and of rank k is a function (S × S) \ {(x, x) : x ∈ S} −→ {0, . . . , k− 1}. A subset X of S is an interval of B if for a, b ∈ X and x ∈ S \X, B(a, x) = B(b, x) and B(x, a) = B(x, b). The family of intervals of B satisfies the following: ∅, B and {x}, where x ∈ B, are intervals of B; for every family F of ...