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Part nouns
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Part nouns divide substances, referred to by the content noun, into smaller wholes.

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Four examples of referential partitive constructions with part nouns are given below:

1
a. In reep sûkelarje
a bar chocolate
A bar of chocolate
b. In stikje sûkelarje
a piece chocolate
A piece of chocolate
c. In brok sûkelarje
a lump chocolate
A lump of chocolate
d. In krommeltsje sûkelarje
a crumb chocolate
A crumb of chocolate

Part nouns cannot enter the partitive construction with mei with in the reading that the part fully consists of whatever is the denotation of the substance noun.

2
*In reep mei sûkelarje
a bar with chocolate
A bar of chocolate

A phrase such as (2) is only grammatical if it means that the bar consists of a substance that is different from chocolate, though having chocolate as supplementary substance. The same holds in case the part noun is joined to the substance noun by the adjective fol full, as in the example below:

3
*In reep fol sûkelarje
a bar with chocolate
A bar of chocolate

This phrase is ungrammatical in the reading that the bar fully consists of chocolate. It is only grammatical if the bar consists of a substance that is different from chocolate while having chocolate as a second substance everywhere. Therefore, the following sentence is grammatical, on the reading that the bar consists of some substance (which is likely to be chocolate) which is filled with something else, namely hazel nuts:

4
In reep fol hazzenuten
a bar full hazelnuts
A bar filled with hazel nuts

The same holds in case the part noun is joined to the substance noun by the phrase fol mei full with:

5
In reep fol mei hazzenuten
a bar full with hazelnuts
A bar filled with hazel nuts
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