Universal #162

Legacy number: 162

 Number  162
 Original  No language uses different dative or spatial markers for partitives.
 Standardized  Overt marking of dative or spatial functions does not alternate depending on whether the referent is partitive or non-partitive.
 Keywords  indirect object, spatial complement, dative, partitive
 Domain  inflection, syntax
 Type  unconditional
 Status  achronic
 Quality  absolute
 Basis  languages surveyed in Blansitt 1988
 Source  inferred from Blansitt 1988: 181

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Discussion
Notes
Presumably the idea is that partitiveness may condition alternations of overt marking only for direct objects.
Comment
Frans Plank · 3 Aug 2006
Presumably the idea is that partitiveness may condition alternations of overt marking only for direct objects.