Comparative Concept: partitive construction (cxn)
Extracted from the appendix of Morphosyntax: Constructions of the World's Languages, by William Croft (2022)
partitive construction (cxn)
| Typ | construction |
|---|---|
| Alias(se) | partitive construction |
| Assoziiert |
Partonomie
Taxonomie
Definition
an anchoring construction that has a piece - noun as the head - referent and an anchor as the modifier. Example: a piece of the cake is a partitive construction in that the object modifier of the cake is a particular individual and hence functions as an anchor. (Section 5.2.2)