A true partitive, as shown in 5a ), has the interpretation of a quantity being a part or subset of an entity or set.
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Whereas the partitive object takes the partitive case, the total object can be marked with either accusative, and indicates aspectual completeness or closed quantity.
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Whereas the partitive object takes the partitive case, the total object can be marked with either accusative, and indicates aspectual completeness or closed quantity.
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In ( 1a ) due is in the object position and therefore it is possible to have the partitive ne .
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However, this approach fails to account for phrases such as " half of a cookie, " that are partitives and yet lack a definite determiner.
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In addition, he limits a partitive to being only able to refer to a proper subset, which he calls " proper partitivity ".
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The partitive plural is " lumia ", expressing the concept of more than a snowflake ( lumihiutale ) but not all snow everywhere ( lumi ).
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Note that in the French-based spellings the D is unhistoric and represents the French partitive particle " d "'" of ".
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In ( 1b ) due is the complement to the preposition which results in the partitive ne making the sentence ungrammatical.
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It should also be noted that some linguists consider the partitive constraint to be problematic, since there may be cases where the determiner is not always obligatory.
