Partitives come, partitives go

CAHA, Pavel. Partitives come, partitives go. In Miniworkshop on DP structure, RoSa, University of Zurich. 2020.

Basic information

Original name

Partitives come, partitives go

Authors

CAHA, Pavel

Edition

Miniworkshop on DP structure, RoSa, University of Zurich, 2020

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Vyžádané přednášky

Field of Study

60203 Linguistics

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

parititves; Estonian; case competition; Ossetic; numerals

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Abstract

V originále

One of the interesting features of the Estonian partitive is that it tends to be replaced by oblique cases. For instance, in a subject position, we would have a phrase like "bag-NOM potatoes-PART" meaning 'a bag of potatoes. But in oblique cases, the partitive is gone, and we get phrases such as "bag-INESSIVE potatoes-INESSIVE," meaning 'in a bag of potatoes. The talk will address the apparently universal and Estonian particular features of this construction in comparison to other languages with similar systems.