Число и определеност на квантифициращата и квантифицираната фраза в партитивни конструкции с предлога от
Number and Definiteness of the Quantifier and the Quantified in Partitive Constructions with the Preposition ОТ

Summary/Abstract: Proceeding from the analysis of cases of wrong agreement in number of the relative pronoun and the verb in the relative clause in the expanded noun phrase един от Npl/collective, който… (‘one of the Npl/collective who…’) in the public speech of educated speakers of Bulgarian, the paper reconsiders the functions of един in the partitive construction един от X (one of X). Adopting the idea of fused heads, the author suggests that in these constructions един unites the functions of a numeral, a marker of specific indefiniteness and a pronoun. This goes against the current view that един is split into homonymous forms – a numeral, an indefinite article, and a pronoun – and is closer to the position that the grammaticalization of един (one) as an indefinite article is not complete. The analysis of the partitive construction requires a look into the semantics of the Bulgarian preposition от (corresponding to English of in this case). The analysis then focuses on the categories of number and determination in relation to the quantifier X and the quantified Y in X от Y (‘X of Y’).

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