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This work aims to examine various challenges related to partitivity in linguistic analysis.

March 2, 2026Open Access

Partitivity across domains

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This work aims to examine various challenges related to partitivity in linguistic analysis.
Provides an overview of recent research contributions on partitivity.
Discusses semantic issues with partitive markers and their associations.
Explores the connections between partitive markers, indefiniteness, and negation.
Analyzes the diachronic evolution of partitive markers.
Investigates the syntactic structure of binominal constructions.
Identifies persistent challenges in partitivity analysis.
Highlights the lack of clear association between partitive markers and the part-whole relationship.
Demonstrates connections between partitive markers and linguistic categories like determiners.
Advances theoretical understanding of partitivity in linguistics.

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This introduction provides an overview of current research on partitivity. The contributions in this volume collectively address several persistent challenges in the analysis of partitivity, such as (i) the semantic underspecification of partitive markers, which are not always transparently associated with the part–whole relation; (ii) the connection between partitive markers and indefiniteness and negation; (iii) the diachronic development of partitive markers and their relation to other categories, such as determiners and prepositions; and (iv) the syntactic structure of binominal constructions. Overall, we hope that these contributions advance our understanding of the many empirical and theoretical problems that partitivity poses for linguistic theory.

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Anna Bartra Kaufmann

Cristina Real Puigdollers

Xavier Villalba Nicolás

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Catalan Journal of Linguistics

SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología

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Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

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