Citations:partitive ablative

English citations of partitive ablative and partitive ablatives

• 1899, Joseph Henry Howard, Case Usage in Petronius’ Satires, page 16:

  Once a nominative limited by unus is found where the partitive ablative or genitive would have to stand if the unus were not, in fact, weakened to an indefinite article: 26, 15, unus servus Agamemnonis.

• 1968 December, Arthur Schwartz, “Derivative Functions in Syntax” in Language XLIV, № 4, page 751:

  Note, finally, that numerals in Old English sometimes agree with the noun they ‘modify’ and sometimes are indeclinable; often, when indeclinable, they appear in alternants like fif dagas alongside fif daga (the latter showing daga as the dependent genitive) — ‘five days’ alongside ‘five of days’, but with no apparent meaning difference and no relation to the definiteness of the noun. This free variation between genitive and appositive construction is confirmed by Old English translation of appositional Latin sedes duodecim as seatla tuelf where accusative plural sedes is rendered as gen. pl. seatla (Matt. 19:28 in the Lindisfarne Gospels); and explains, in part, the emergence of what may be called the ‘partitive ablative’ with of — which in turn has weakened, and may be reinforced with another ablative (out of) under certain circumstances.

• 1993, Johannes Tromp, The Assumption of Moses: A Critical Edition with Commentary, E.J. Brill, ISSN 01698125, →ISBN, part two: “The Latin of the Assumption of Moses”, chapter IV: ‘(Morpho-)Syntax’, section b: « Cases », § 108 (page 59):

  The a b l a t i v e is used locatively (e.g. locis ignotis 6:3) and temporally (e.g. illis temporibus 3:1). Also, it is used: /…/ — as a partitive ablative: implere sceleribus 5:6 l. em. The adjective plenus is constructed with partitive ablatives in plena lacrimis et gemitibus 11:4; contrast in scelere pleni 7:7. According to the classical rules, plenus is constructed with a genitive (Ernout-Thomas §§ 65, 115); […]