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INTRODUCTION TO EUROPEAN PARTITIVES IN COMPARISON
interested in how partitives emerge, and how they are in between categories
that are in transition.”
Hungarian proper partitives serve as an example in order to show what
answers can be given to at least some of these questions. The main strategies
of Hungarian for encoding proper partitives are subset marking via possessive
agreement and superset marking via case or adposition.’* Subset marking via
possessive agreement with the superset means that if the subset is represented
by a quantifier — which is the case in the “canonical” type of proper partitive
constructions like English two / many / some(one) / each of the / those students”
— possessive suffixes or markers that reflect the 1PL, 2PL, 3PL features of the
superset can be attached to this quantifier.”° In other words, the Hungarian
partitive relationship can be denoted by a single possessive marked word; see
the paradigms of some possessively inflected quantifiers in Table 1. DP stands
for the superset.
Table 1. Some possessively inflected quantifiers in Hungarian (Finno-Ugric, Ugric)
‘two of DP’ | ‘many of DP’ | ‘one of DP’ | ‘someone of DP’ | ‘each of DP’
1PL | kettô-nk sok-unk egyik-ünk | valamelyik-ünk | mindegyik-ünk
2PL | kettö-tök sok-atok egyik-etek | valamelyik-etek | mindegyik-etek
3PL | kettö-jük sok-uk egyik-ük valamelyik-ük mindegyik-ük
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By quantifier we mean here both numerals, whether cardinal or “weak”, and indefinite or
universal pronouns, as well as their interrogative and relative variants.
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