Abstract
In this paper we revisit the main properties of the partitive (PC) and the pseudopartitive construction (PPC) in Greek placing our focus on the distribution of the preposition apo ‘of/from’, which introduces the partitive complement in the PC but is absent from the PPC. We propose two distinct analyses for the two constructions, which predict the particular distribution of apo as a meaningful preposition, according to our hypothesis. We further discuss the crosslinguistic implications of our analysis.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank three anonymous reviewers, Tabea Ihsane and the participants of the PARTE I workshop in Venice in November 2017 for helpful comments and discussion. Many thanks go to Dan Bondarenko and Ann Kelly for editorial assistance. Alexiadou’s research was supported by the DFG grant AL 554/12-1 (DP Border).
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