Case Matching in Estonian Pseudopartitives
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For comments and suggestions at various stages in this work’s development, I would like to thank Mark Baker, Amy Rose Deal, Jorge Hankamer, Ruth Kramer, and James McCloskey. Thanks as well go to the Estonians whose judgments and insights have helped shape this paper, especially Leelo Kask and Mervi Kalmus. Thanks as well go to a Dissertation Year Fellowship from the Institute for Humanities Research at UC-Santa Cruz. Any misinterpretations of those judgments and insights, as well as any other errors, are my responsibility. 1Abbreviations: 1 = ‘first person’, 3 = ‘third person’, ACC = ‘accusative case’, ALL = ‘allative case’, ELA = ‘elative case’, GEN = ‘genitive’, ILL = ‘illative’, INH = ‘inherent case’, MSC = ‘Measure-Substance Construction’, NOM = ‘nominative’, PAR = ‘partitive case’, PL = ‘plural number’, PRS = ‘present tense’, PST = ‘past tense’, PSTPART = ‘past participle’, SG = ‘singular number’, TRL = ‘translative case’,
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