Partitive Structures

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Linguistics

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Shin, Keun Young

Contributors dc:contributor

• Yoon, Hye Suk James

• Language, Linguistics

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3301227

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82650