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EUROPEAN PARTITIVES IN COMPARISON
3. PARTITIVES IN COMPARISON
Partitivity can cover various notions that can be encoded by different means,
even in languages that have partitivity as a grammatical category, like the
Finnic partitive case. How about languages with no partitive case? What
strategies do they use to encode the basic partitive concepts? In what gram¬
matical relations are these strategies employed in their grammar? Various
languages in Europe have determiners that relate to indefiniteness, others
have partitive prepositions, and several European languages have partitive
pronouns, sometimes marked for person, and some have a partitive or parti¬
tive genitive case; there can also be overlaps between categories of article
and preposition, however, these forms usually relate to pseudo-partitive
semantics or quantification rather than proper partitivity."° Many are
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