Partitives are defined as constructions that may express the proportional relation of a subset to a superset (Seržant 2021: 881). In Middle English, the second argument of transitive verbs is encoded with the PP of+2 to express partitive meaning.
| Verb Meaning | Verb form | Basic coding frame | Derived coding frame | Occurs | Comment | # Ex. | |
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