The 'partitive' construction denotes categories including 'whole' and 'fractional numbers', 'aggregate numbers', 'dozen words' (e.g., dozen, ream, quire, gross), 'quantitative determiners ' (e.g., either, neither, each, some, all, both, half, many), 'container words ' (e.g., can, bag, bottle, spoon, tin), 'collection words', 'measure units' and 'indefinite amount ' (e.g., drop, pinch, dose).
the 'partitive' construction encompasses Sinclair's 'quantity/measure' and 'focus' noun groups.