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Cross-disciplinary research is of paramount importance in a field such as the one that Bhāṣā aims to cover, the languages of South Asia, in which linguistic, philological and grammatical studies can all count on a long and rich tradition.

As Koptjevskaja-Tamm points out, the division of labor between the elative and the partitive case in partitive constructions largely corresponds to the distinction between partitive nominal constructions (elative) and pseudo-partitive constructions (partitive), as shown in Figure 2 (from [50]: 533). 2.2 Partitive elements Partitive constructions may also develop into "faded" partitives, a term introduced by [51] to indicate seemingly partitive constructions in which, however, there is only a vague hint to a possible part-whole relation, as discussed in De Hoop ([34]: 193-206; see also [75]). As observed in Section 1, the term "partitive", "partitives" has been used with different meanings, comprising partitive and pseudo-partitive constructions, faded partitives and indefinite or "generalized" partitives. Section 3.2.2 is devoted to so-called "generalized" partitives, i.e. partitive cases, partitive genitives, partitive articles that express notions other than partivity, such as indefiniteness or unboundedness. Partitive constructions and their developments In this section we present some basic notions related to partitivity, focusing on types of constructions connected with the notion of part/whole relation, i.e. the partitive nominal construction, or "proper partitive", and the pseudo-partitive construction (Section 2.1). [Extracted from the article]

In several ancient and modern Indo-European languages, the partitive-genitive may be used in place of the accusative to encode the second argument of two-place verbs. In Ancient Greek the two types of object encoding can alternate with change-of-state verbs, alternation being viewed as connected with degrees of patient affectedness: the partitive-genitive encodes partially affected objects. Alternation also extends to experiential verbs, which are typically characterized by a low degree of transitivity and do not imply any change of state of the object-stimulus. Rather than concentrating on the implications of case alternation on the construal of the object, I consider the effects of variation on the whole construction, and argue that genitive vs. accusative marking of the object (NomGen vs. NomAcc constructions) reflects the construal of the subject-experiencer. While the different construal of the experiencer in terms of degrees of control cross-linguistically often results in non-nominative encoding of the experiencer, in Ancient Greek it is object encoding that affects the construal of the experiencer and reflects a scale based on possible control. The distribution of constructions with experiential verbs shows that NomAcc is typical of verbs of sight, thought, intellectual knowledge and emotions connected to sight and awareness, such as wonder and fear. NomGen is connected with touch, smell, taste, memory, forgetfulness, care and desire. In the in-between area, verbs of hearing, learning and verbs of affection may feature both accusative and genitive encoding, thus constituting a fuzzy transition area. The connection between sight and other experiential verbs that feature accusative encoding reflects an embodied conceptualization of experiential situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gapping, or leaving out identical verbs in coordinated clauses, is a common feature of Classical Greek prose. There is a distinct tendency toward rightward gapping that may be connected to human processing capacities, and gapping for each specific occurrence can be demonstrated as pragmatically motivated.