The Finnish Possessive Suffixes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2910656 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janet B Pierrehumbert (0000-0002-5989-3574, corresponding author), Janet Pierrehumbert |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 603 |
| Publication date | 1980-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Language (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-8507 • E-ISSN: 1535-0665 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/414452 |
| OpenAlex | W2328024807 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
A distinctive feature of Finnish morphology is the possessive suffixes, which are found not only on possessed nouns, but also on adjectives, postpositions, and untensed verbs. Traditional grammars have taken the view that these suffixes arise through a rule of agreement with a genitive specifier, which may be subject to subsequent deletion rules. This paper shows that they are not agreement markers, but rather clitic allomorphs of the reflexive pronoun. X-bar theory is used to formulate rules governing their distribution
Linguistics · Possessive · History · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistic research and analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,1 |
| Citation span | 1987 - 2024 (38) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |