The present paper examines substandard Polish constructions in which the quantifiers kupa ‘a lot’, masa ‘mass’ and połowa ‘a half’ in Subject function occur in the Accusative case (plus the referential noun in the Genitive) and take neuter singular verb agreement: Kupę ludzi zebrało się na placu, ‘a lot of people gathered in the square’. Drawing on a large amount of occurrences taken from two corpora a qualitative analysis of the construction is carried out, in order to highlight how the indefinite quantifier semantic characteristics predispose it to the thematic role of Patient.
University of Milan, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0002-5016-7568
Chapter Title
A proposito di quantificatori indefiniti di massa in polacco
Authors
Paola Cotta Ramusino
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-328-5.05
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Publication Year
2016
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Book Title
Le lingue slave tra struttura e uso
Editors
Valentina Benigni, Lucyna Gebert, Julija Nikolaeva
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Number of Pages
346
Publication Year
2016
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© 2016 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6453-328-5
ISBN Print
978-88-6453-327-8
eISBN (pdf)
978-88-6453-328-5
eISBN (xml)
978-88-9273-230-8
Series Title
Biblioteca di Studi Slavistici
Series ISSN
2612-7687
Series E-ISSN
2612-7679