Typology of partitives

The syntactic structure of grammaticalized partitives (pseudo-partitives)

A Theory of Kinds , Partitives

The paper aims to show that a proper analysis of partitives and of/z possessives can be naturally extended to the kind-construction, leading to a unified treatment of these forms which explains many of their syntactic and semantic peculiarities. The account will rest on a relatively strict mapping between functional projections and meaning-types within the noun phrase, and on the existence of a...

English Partitives and Double Genitives

Barker (1998) proposes that the of in (1a) is semantically similar to the of in (1b) and different from the of in (2). I take this a step further and suggest that the of in (1a) is the same as the of in (1b). I also show that, while the proposal of Barker (1998) requires additional stipulations (Storto (2000)), my proposal correctly predicts some differences between the partitive and the double...

The polysemy of container pseudo-partitives

In a series of experimental studies, we investigate the nature of the ambiguity of container pseudo partitives (glass of water), asking whether its distinct interpretations are available simultaneously in copredication environments or whether they stand in competition. The studies compare the pattern of acceptability of container pseudo-partitives to lexical polysemes (book) and homonyms (date)...

Morphological Typology

analyses1917.8 Themes of seventy-two French verbs1937.9 Identical French conjugations1957.10 Concrete plat of stem formatives for seventy-two French conjugations1967.11 Abstract plat of stem formatives for seventy-two French conjugations1997.12 Optimal static principal-part analyses for French (concrete analysis)2027.13 Optimal static principal-pa...