<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Tamm, A</style></author></authors><secondary-authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Oszkó, Beatrix</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Sipos, Mária</style></author></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">On some modal similarities between the -vat infinitival predicates and the partitive objects</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Online Proceedings of Word Categories (SzóOSZTÁLYtalálkozó)</style></secondary-title><tertiary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Budapesti Uráli Mühely (BUM)</style></tertiary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></date></pub-dates></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://fgrtort.nytud.hu/images/stories/bum5/BUM5_AnneTamm.pdf</style></url></web-urls></urls><publisher><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">MTA Nyelvtudomány Intézete</style></publisher><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">5</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1-14</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">English</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This paper discusses the Estonian vat-form, which has both nominal and verbal properties. Its use as the main predicate of the sentence speaks for an analysis as a verb. However, the restrictions on agreement – the inability to inflect for person and number – indicate the historical infinitival or nominal character of that form. Facts about the historical origins as a partitive-marked personal or impersonal present participle, which still retains some of its partitive semantics as discussed in this paper, lead to a historical nominal analys2is of the vat-form. The paper studies the relation between aspect and evidentiality and wishes to point out that the phenomena related to the vat-form sentences show that partitive marking has pervaded the Estonian Tense-Aspect-Mood system more deeply than previously assumed. The partitive marking on predicates and objects is a unique phenomenon that allows us to understand the relations between the mood, modality, and aspect categories from a new angle.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>