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Description
Title
Partitive Structures
Author(s)
Shin, Keun Young
Issue Date
2007
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Yoon, Hye Suk James
Department of Study
Linguistics
Discipline
Linguistics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Language, Linguistics
Language
eng
Abstract
Natural languages have various ways of referring to a part of an entity denoted by a nominal phrase. One of these ways is to use common nouns that are described as relational nouns denoting part-whole relations between two entities. There is another method, however, to express a part of the entity without using such common nouns. In the partitive, the quantifier by itself is used to refer to a part of an entity (e.g., three of the students ). This study examines partitives in Korean and English and argues that partitives share the structure with other constructions expressing PART-OF relations with common nouns. That is, the quantifier in the partitive is different from the ordinary quantifier that directly combines with an NP in that it is a relational quantity noun denoting a PART-OF relation. A larger goal of this dissertation is to propose that there are generalizations in the syntax and semantics of natural language expressions which are used to refer to parts of entities.
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