3. The Partitive Concept versus Linguistic Partitives: From Abstract Concepts to Evidentiality in the Uralic Languages

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of abbreviations vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. Typological aspects
6. 1. Typology and diachrony of partitive case markers 17
7. 2. Partitives and negation: a cross-linguistic survey 63
8. II. Uralic languages
9. 3. The Partitive Concept versus Linguistic Partitives: From Abstract Concepts to Evidentiality in the Uralic Languages 89
10. 4. Partitives across constructions: on the range of uses of the Finnish and Estonian “partitive subjects” 153
11. 5. Partitive noun phrases in the Estonian core argument system 177
12. 6. Finnish Partitive and resultativity in translation(s): a discourse-cognitive approach 257
13. III Basque
14. 7. The definite article and the partitive particle in Basque: dialectal variation 291
15. 8. The origin of the Basque partitive 323
16. IV Slavic languages
17. 9. The second genitive in Russian 347
18. 10. The Russian partitive and verbal aspect 379
19. 11. Double government in Polish: a case study 399
20. V Historical perspectives on Indo-European languages
21. 12. Partitive Subjects and Objects in Indo-Iranian and beyond 417
22. 13. The Ancient Greek partitive genitive in typological perspective 443
23. 14. The grammaticalization of the prepositional partitive in Romance 477
24. VI Oceanic languages
25. 15. Partitives in Oceanic languages 523
26. Subject index 563
27. Author index 567