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Finnish partitive constructions exhibit a case alternation that is partly semantically, partly syntactically driven.
The agent noun construction with a partitive object is no longer considered incorrect.
The interest in the partitive and the material we find in Herrick's poems on women's clothing and appurtenances finds a pictorial complement in the oeuvre of Hollar.
According to traditional Finnish grammars, the accusative is the case of a total object, while the case of a partial object is the partitive.
In languages that have a partitive case, the distinction is explicit and mandatory.
Or may it even be regarded as a partitive genitive in the sense that the notion of God forms part of life on earth?
Thus, with actualisation, a new type of specific and partitive distinction takes the place of the fluent ideal distinctions.
A comparison of the part-whole and partitive reasoning with unit and non-unit proper fractions.
All Tsezic languages have one Genitive with typical genitive functions such as the marking of possession, of material and of partitive phrases.
For sinine the plural partitive form is siniseid and so siniseim is the short superlative.
Finnic languages, such as Finnish and Estonian, have two cases to mark objects, the accusative and the partitive case.
In morphosyntactic alignment terms, both perform the accusative function, but the accusative object is telic, while the partitive is not.
Partitive articles are used in French and Italian in addition to definite and indefinite articles.
Examples from Classical Literature
In the classical languages the partitive power was expressed by the genitive.
The partitive words that can combine with singular pronouns are comparatively few, viz.
Etahi may be considered as corresponding to the partitive article des of the French.
It is not a predicate adjective, but a partitive genitive after hwt.
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