This paper provides empirical evidence in favour of Marti Girbau's (2003, 2010) quantifier phrase analysis (QP of N) of the partitive construction, which is based on the analysis of verbal agreement in a large data set from the BNC (British National Corpus) and COCA (Corpus of Contemporary American English). The competing binominal N of NP analysis, advocated by some, predicts that there is number agreement with the first nominal element. In order to account for verbal agreement along these lines, two further principles, that of proximal agreement and possibly that of notional agreement, are needed. The agreement patterns with the partitive construction as observed in the corpus can be explained in a more elegant way when the NP is analysed in terms of a quantifier phrase followed by a nominal head (QP of N): verb number is predicted in 95.74% of the cases (compared to 54.24% when the binominal analysis is adopted), agreement in the remaining 4.26% exceptional cases falling out of further semantic and lexical considerations.

中文翻译：

---

与部分名词短语的口头协议

本文提供了支持 Marti Girbau (2003, 2010) 对部分结构的量词短语分析 (QP of N) 的实证证据，该分析基于对 BNC（英国国家语料库）大数据集中的口头一致性分析和 COCA（当代美国英语语料库）。一些人提倡的 NP 分析的竞争二项式 N 预测与第一个标称元素存在数量一致性。为了解释沿着这些路线的口头协议，需要两个进一步的原则，即最近的协议和可能的名义协议。当根据量词短语后跟名词性中心词（N 的 QP）来分析 NP 时，可以用更优雅的方式解释语料库中观察到的与部分结构的一致模式：动词编号在 95 中预测。