glot international 3 1 glot international volume 3 1998 issue 1 january state ofthe article helen de hoop partitivity main function partitive elements make certain sets entities accessible quantification case ordinary partitives process involves restricted contextually bounded sets whereas case types partitives pseudopartitives faded partitives partitive case set semantic entity made available quantification unrestricted unbounded column recent issues linguistics elan dresher noch einmal comparative germanic tale two journals based premise would still strike many nonlinguists incredible idea small differences languages accidents history culture connected universal principles small seemingly insignificant differences dissertations development functional categories acquisition subject french astrid ferdinand reviewed claire foley nature adjectival inflection ellen petra kester reviewed judy b bernstein goodies tree creation elizabeth ritter reviewing arboreal conference reports escol 1997 chung hye han going romance 11 jan wouter zwart announcements number death linguistic mystery eight installments chris sidney tappan concordance intratextual references chomsky chapter four compiled c j w zwart http www hag nl glot holland academic graphics scientific document processing p box 53292 2505 ag hague netherlands http www hag nl phone 31704480203 fax 31704480177