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Not predicative, yet partitive
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Some present participles cannot occur in predicative position, yet they appear in the partitive construction.

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An exception to the generalisation saying that predicative adjectives can be used as partitive adjectives is the class of adjectives derived from present participles, provided they have a subjective interpretation. Some of these do not occur in the predicate position of copulas, but they are fine in the partitive construction:

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a. *It bedriuw is bloeiend
the company is flourishing
The company is flourishing
b. In bloeiend bedriuw
a flourishing company
A flourishing company
c. Wat bloeiend-s
something flourishing.PA
Something flourishing
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