Comparative Concept: pseudo-partitive (str)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
pseudo-partitive (str)
| Typ | strategy |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | pseudo-partitive |
| Assoziiert |
Partonomie
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Definition
a strategy for mensural constructions in which a possessive modification construction is recruited (or was recruited, as the pseudo-partitive often differs from the counterpart modification construction) to express the mensural relation. (Section 5.2.2)