possessives

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... Hebrew There are two possible ways to express par- titivity in Hebrew: using a construction of 147 Bilingual Hebrew-English Generation of Possessives and Partitives: Raising the Input Abstraction ... feature and the update of the usage of the possessor feature. For both of these features, the main re- quirement on the realizer is to properly han- dle cases of "competition" for the ... mile of cable, typical partitives a loaf of bread, a slice of cake, and general partitives: a piece/bit /of an item of X. In the syntactic structure of a partitive structure, the part is the...

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