Frontmatter -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- I. Typological aspects -- 1. Typology and diachrony of partitive case markers -- 2. Partitives and negation: a cross-linguistic survey -- II. Uralic languages -- 3. The Partitive Concept versus Linguistic Partitives: From Abstract Concepts to Evidentiality in the Uralic Languages -- 4. Partitives across constructions: on the range of uses of the Finnish and Estonian "partitive subjects" -- 5. Partitive noun phrases in the Estonian core argument system -- 6. Finnish Partitive and resultativity in translation(s): a discourse-cognitive approach -- III Basque -- 7. The definite article and the partitive particle in Basque: dialectal variation -- 8. The origin of the Basque partitive -- IV Slavic languages -- 9. The second genitive in Russian -- 10. The Russian partitive and verbal aspect -- 11. Double government in Polish: a case study -- V Historical perspectives on Indo-European languages -- 12. Partitive Subjects and Objects in Indo-Iranian and beyond -- 13. The Ancient Greek partitive genitive in typological perspective -- 14. The grammaticalization of the prepositional partitive in Romance -- VI Oceanic languages -- 15. Partitives in Oceanic languages -- Subject index -- Author index