Merlijn De Smit
Biographic Data
| ID | 5077092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merlijn De Smit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merlijn |
| FAMILY NAME | De Smit |
| SIGNATURE | DE SMIT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stockholm University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9778-1656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contact-induced change in the languages of Europe
This paper explores the hypothesis of contact-induced change for the rise of the partitive case in Finnic languages and of the partitive case/determiner in Basque. On the basis of the well-established Indo-European partitive-genitive case and taking into account the lack of such a basis on the Uralic side, we argue that the partitive case in Finnic languages has arisen as a result of Balto-Slavic influence. Concerning the Basque partitive determi…
Fluid intransitivity in Old Finnish
Fluid intransitivity designates the phenomenon that the intransitive subject (S) may be marked like a transitive subject (A) or an object (O) depending on the syntactic construction where it occurs. In Finnish, the S of existential and possessive clauses is marked like O in terms of case-marking and agreement. This paper examines fluid intransitivity in Old Finnish through a corpus of intransitive clauses with indefinite subjects from Agricola's …
Marked Subjects in Old Finnish
In the following article, I argue that syntactic borrowing is not an independent mechanism of change, but based on bilingual reanalysis and extension. As a case sample, I examine a frequent modal construction in Old Finnish, namely that involving the auxiliary pitää ‘must’. Where in Modern Finnish this auxiliary takes a genitive or nominative argument depending on such factors as agentivity and clause transitivity, the argument is object-like in …
Northern European Prehistory, From Below
Charlotte Damm & Janne Saarikivi (eds): Networks, Interaction and Emerging Identities in Fennoscandia and Beyond. Papers from the conference held in Tromsø, Norway, October 13–16, 2009. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 265. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 2012
Northern European Prehistory, from above
Riho Grünthal & Petri Kallio (eds): A linguistic map of prehistoric Northern Europe. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 266. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 2012
Modelling Mixed Languages
Modelling Mixed Languages
Old Helsinki Slang (OHS) a linguistic variety spoken in the working-class quarters of Helsinki from approx. 1900 to 1945, is marked by the usage of a virtually wholly Swedish vocabulary in a Finnish morphosyntactic framework. It has recently been subject of two interestingly contrasting treatments by Petri Kallio and Vesa Jarva. Kallio argues that the morphosyntactic base of OHS gives cause to analyzing it as unambiguously Finnic, and therefore U…
Contact-induced change in the languages of Europe
This paper explores the hypothesis of contact-induced change for the rise of the partitive case in Finnic languages and of the partitive case/determiner in Basque. On the basis of the well-established Indo-European partitive-genitive case and taking into account the lack of such a basis on the Uralic side, we argue that the partitive case in Finnic languages has arisen as a result of Balto-Slavic influence. Concerning the Basque partitive determi…
Modelling Mixed Languages
Modelling Mixed Languages
Old Helsinki Slang (OHS) a linguistic variety spoken in the working-class quarters of Helsinki from approx. 1900 to 1945, is marked by the usage of a virtually wholly Swedish vocabulary in a Finnish morphosyntactic framework. It has recently been subject of two interestingly contrasting treatments by Petri Kallio and Vesa Jarva. Kallio argues that the morphosyntactic base of OHS gives cause to analyzing it as unambiguously Finnic, and therefore U…
Northern European Prehistory, From Below
Charlotte Damm & Janne Saarikivi (eds): Networks, Interaction and Emerging Identities in Fennoscandia and Beyond. Papers from the conference held in Tromsø, Norway, October 13–16, 2009. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 265. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 2012
Northern European Prehistory, from above
Riho Grünthal & Petri Kallio (eds): A linguistic map of prehistoric Northern Europe. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 266. Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura 2012
Marked Subjects in Old Finnish
In the following article, I argue that syntactic borrowing is not an independent mechanism of change, but based on bilingual reanalysis and extension. As a case sample, I examine a frequent modal construction in Old Finnish, namely that involving the auxiliary pitää ‘must’. Where in Modern Finnish this auxiliary takes a genitive or nominative argument depending on such factors as agentivity and clause transitivity, the argument is object-like in …
Fluid intransitivity in Old Finnish
Fluid intransitivity designates the phenomenon that the intransitive subject (S) may be marked like a transitive subject (A) or an object (O) depending on the syntactic construction where it occurs. In Finnish, the S of existential and possessive clauses is marked like O in terms of case-marking and agreement. This paper examines fluid intransitivity in Old Finnish through a corpus of intransitive clauses with indefinite subjects from Agricola's …
Contact-induced change in the languages of Europe
This paper explores the hypothesis of contact-induced change for the rise of the partitive case in Finnic languages and of the partitive case/determiner in Basque. On the basis of the well-established Indo-European partitive-genitive case and taking into account the lack of such a basis on the Uralic side, we argue that the partitive case in Finnic languages has arisen as a result of Balto-Slavic influence. Concerning the Basque partitive determi…
History (6 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Genitive case (2 works)