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Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics

partitive

Morphological case in some languages (e.g. Finnish) which expresses ‘a part of; e.g. eat a fish vs eat some fish. The partitive is often expressed with the genitive case and can also take on a number of other meanings and functions.

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Partitive from Routledge Dictionary of Language and Linguistics. ISBN: 0-203-98005-0. Published: 12-03-1998. ©2009 Taylor and Francis. All rights reserved.



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