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Distributional differences in the use of partitive objects in Estonian and Finnish

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4567753
AutoresIlmari Ivaska (0000-0001-7366-7111, University of Turku, autor de correspondencia), Anni Tamm (0000-0002-5804-0174, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary)
Año2024
Volumen24
Número2
Páginas323-371
Fecha de publicación2024-11-14
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaLinguistic Variation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2211-6834 • E-ISSN: 2211-6842
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/lv.23042.iva
OpenAlexW4391997853
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas53

The article compares the distributional differences in the use of the partitive object cases in Estonian and Finnish via multifactorial modeling in contrastive research using the European Parliament parallel text corpus. Based on previous contrastive research on Finnic, we expected the principles of object case marking to be similar for Estonian and Finnish (confirmed), and the partitive objects to be more numerous in Estonian than in Finnish (not confirmed, as countable objects with scalar verbs proved less likely to be partitive in Estonian). We hypothesized that multifactorial modeling in contrastive research design could help identify the causes for variation and unfold subtle differences between related language systems. Since preferences related to grammatical voice and constituent order revealed subtle differences between the systems, this hypothesis was confirmed

Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Geology