Direct pseudo-partitives in US English
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: We present a corpus study looking at direct and indirect pseudo-partitives in US English and show that not only is there regular use of direct pseudo-partitives, but there is only positive evidence of their use with measure/portion readings as opposed to container+contents readings. We account for the data with an analysis in which of is a functional particle in measure/portion readings but is a lexical item specifying a contain relation in container+contents readings.
Source: Linguistics Vanguard
Authors: Kurt Erbach, Remus Gergel
Institutions: Goethe University Frankfurt, Saarland University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $2,712
OpenAlex ID: W4407141045