Pseudo-partitives in English
An HPSG analysis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21695208 |
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| Authors | Frank Van Eynde (0000-0002-6172-442X, E Ink (South Korea)), J B Kim (0000-0003-3286-0446, Kyung Hee University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 271-302 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | English Language and Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-6743 • E-ISSN: 1469-4379 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1360674322000399 |
| OpenAlex | W4313430688 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
Pseudo-partitives are strings of the form [N 1 – of – N 2 ] in which N 1 denotes a quantity or amount of whatever it is that N 2 denotes and in which N 2 is a bare nominal. Such strings come in two types, depending on whether the combination shares the number value of N 1 or N 2 . The first type can be analyzed along familiar lines, but the second one is a hard nut to crack. The article presents existing treatments, showing that they all involve departures from independently motivated principles. As an alternative we propose an analysis that is cast in the Typed Feature Structure notation of Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar. It handles both types of pseudo-partitives, arguing that N 1 and the preposition of are complement-selecting heads if the number value is shared with N 1 , while N 1 and the preposition are head-selecting functors if the number value is shared with N 2 . The switch from head to functor status is characteristic of grammaticalization and is shown to affect pseudo-partitives with a quantifier noun or a collection noun as N 1 , but not pseudo-partitives with a measure noun or collection noun. Examples and quantitative data are extracted from COCA
Combinatorics · Discrete mathematics · Functor · Grammar · Linguistics · Noun · Noun phrase · Statistics · Computer Science · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
| Highly cited | No |
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