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INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN PARTITIVES IN COMPARISON (7) drink.pRT1.3PL milk-ABL and ... ‘They drank some milk and ... (Superset indefinite, subset indeterminate.) 2SG.REFL eat.voraciously.2sG milk-ABL-DEF 2SG.REFL milk.IMP.2sG ‘[Since] you are the one drinking the milk, you milk [the cow] yourself? (Superset definite, subset indeterminate.) Vasili drink.pRT1.3sG glass[NoM] milk[noM] ‘Vasili drank a glass of milk? (Superset indefinite, subset determinate.) Nuyanzin drink.prtl.3sG>3sG milk-GEN.DEF and... ‘Nuyanzin drank the milk and ..’ (Superset definite, subset determinate.) m u m = +15 +
