Dutch partitive constructions of the type one of the (few) X who Y show a striking pattern of singular subject-verb agreement in their relative clause. This paper presents a corpus study showing that the prescriptively “incorrect” singular agreement pattern is in fact the dominant pattern in Dutch. In order to explain this, we argue that this type of partitive construction often has a specific function in context, namely, to point out that the subject is special or extraordinary, usually for the reason presented by the relative clause. We apply a usage-based approach to this construction within the framework of Construction Grammar, arguing that the prevalent implicature of the subject’s specialness has become a conventionalized part of the meaning of the construction. This analysis then can be used to explain the syntactic pattern of singular agreement within the relative clause. A similar albeit less pronounced pattern can be found in German.*

中文翻译：

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荷兰语特殊部分结构中的单一协议

类型的荷兰语部分结构（少数）X 和 Y 之一在它们的关系从句中表现出惊人的单数主谓一致模式。本文提出了一项语料库研究，表明规定性“不正确”的单数一致模式实际上是荷兰语的主要模式。为了解释这一点，我们认为这种类型的部分结构在上下文中通常具有特定的功能，即指出主语是特殊的或非同寻常的，通常是由于关系从句提出的原因。我们在构式语法的框架内对这种构式应用基于用法的方法，认为主题特殊性的普遍含义已成为构式意义的常规化部分。然后，这种分析可以用来解释关系从句中单数一致的句法模式。