Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Biographic Data
| ID | 979341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marja-Liisa Helasvuo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marja-Liisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Helasvuo |
| SIGNATURE | HELASVUO M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Turku |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0090-9997 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Predicating without a lexical verb
Are main clauses really ‘main’ clauses? The case of relative clauses in spoken Estonian and Finnish
The article concerns relative clause constructions and their main clauses in Estonian and Finnish conversation. The study shows that copula clauses and existential clauses predominate in the corpus data: these two clause types accounted for more than half of the main clauses. Such main clauses serve simply to introduce a referent which is then predicated upon in the relative clause and is likely to be subsequently discussed in the conversation. I…
Insubordinate relative clauses in Finnish – old and new
This article concerns insubordination, the use of clause types ordinarily considered subordinate without main clauses (Evans 2007). We study the use of insubordinate relative clauses (RCs) in two corpora, the Arkisyn corpus of contemporary Finnish conversation and the Agricola corpus from the 16th century. Our main findings are that the construction is put to very similar uses in the two corpora, but that it is more common in the newer corpus. We…
Free NPs as units in Finnish
This article focuses on free NPs, i.e. noun phrases that are grammatically not part of any clause but form units of their own. Using the methodology of discourse-functional and interactional linguistics, I analyze the morphosyntactic, prosodic and interactional features of free NPs in conversational Finnish. With its rich morphological marking, Finnish provides an interesting perspective on free NPs: Morphosyntactic features, together with semant…
Units in responsive turns
Disclaiming epistemic access with 'know' and 'remember' in Finnish
Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations
Searching for motivations for grammatical patternings
In this article I analyze subject expression in conversational Finnish, identifying the home environments for zero and pronominal subjects in the 1st and 2nd person singular. Based on a syntactically coded database, I show that there is a clear preference, in both 1st and 2nd person, for pronominal subjects over zeros; in other words, double-marking is preferred over single-marking. This clearly contravenes the general preference for minimization…
Discourse participants in interaction
Agreement or crystallization
Discourses in interaction
Grammar from the Human Perspective
The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded in the grammatical expression of spatial relations. Other articles concern embodiment in language, showing how conceptualization is mediated by one’s em…
Passive — personal or impersonal?
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo’s paper discusses passive constructions in Finnish. Based on a large database of spoken Finnish, she argues that contrary to the received view in Finnish linguistics, there are actually two types of passive in Finnish, namely the so-called simple passive (formed by the verb stem + passive suffix + personal marker) and a periphrastic passive; the latter is the so-called be -passive, formed with the verb ‘to be’ in its 3 rd per…
Person in Finnish
The paper by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lea Laitinen provides an overview to person marking in Finnish. It aims to contribute to resolving some of the long-standing confusions surrounding how person has been dealt with in Finnish grammar. In Finnish, the predicate verb agrees with the subject in person (1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd ) and number (singular : plural). The verb thus shows the same person as the nominal subject, and therefore, the nominal and …
Searching for Words
In this article, we examine how word search sequences are constructed over time in terms of syntax and interaction, concentrating on searches for lexical elements. The data comes from conversations of aphasic speakers of Finnish that were recorded at speech therapy sessions and at home. These speakers have the fluent type of aphasia, being capable of producing complex utterances but with difficulty in finding content words and using many phonolog…
Shared syntax
Syntax in the Making
Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recurrent, grammaticized patterns of discourse. This book focuses on syntactic structuring in Finnish from the viewpoint of language use. The author sets out to study syntactic structures in their local c…
Searching for Words
In this article, we examine how word search sequences are constructed over time in terms of syntax and interaction, concentrating on searches for lexical elements. The data comes from conversations of aphasic speakers of Finnish that were recorded at speech therapy sessions and at home. These speakers have the fluent type of aphasia, being capable of producing complex utterances but with difficulty in finding content words and using many phonolog…
Shared syntax
Agreement or crystallization
Disclaiming epistemic access with 'know' and 'remember' in Finnish
Units in responsive turns
Discourse participants in interaction
Syntax in the Making
Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recurrent, grammaticized patterns of discourse. This book focuses on syntactic structuring in Finnish from the viewpoint of language use. The author sets out to study syntactic structures in their local c…
Searching for Words
In this article, we examine how word search sequences are constructed over time in terms of syntax and interaction, concentrating on searches for lexical elements. The data comes from conversations of aphasic speakers of Finnish that were recorded at speech therapy sessions and at home. These speakers have the fluent type of aphasia, being capable of producing complex utterances but with difficulty in finding content words and using many phonolog…
Shared syntax
Grammar from the Human Perspective
The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded in the grammatical expression of spatial relations. Other articles concern embodiment in language, showing how conceptualization is mediated by one’s em…
Passive — personal or impersonal?
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo’s paper discusses passive constructions in Finnish. Based on a large database of spoken Finnish, she argues that contrary to the received view in Finnish linguistics, there are actually two types of passive in Finnish, namely the so-called simple passive (formed by the verb stem + passive suffix + personal marker) and a periphrastic passive; the latter is the so-called be -passive, formed with the verb ‘to be’ in its 3 rd per…
Person in Finnish
The paper by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lea Laitinen provides an overview to person marking in Finnish. It aims to contribute to resolving some of the long-standing confusions surrounding how person has been dealt with in Finnish grammar. In Finnish, the predicate verb agrees with the subject in person (1 st , 2 nd and 3 rd ) and number (singular : plural). The verb thus shows the same person as the nominal subject, and therefore, the nominal and …
Discourses in interaction
Discourse participants in interaction
Agreement or crystallization
Detached NPs with relative clauses in Finnish conversations
Searching for motivations for grammatical patternings
In this article I analyze subject expression in conversational Finnish, identifying the home environments for zero and pronominal subjects in the 1st and 2nd person singular. Based on a syntactically coded database, I show that there is a clear preference, in both 1st and 2nd person, for pronominal subjects over zeros; in other words, double-marking is preferred over single-marking. This clearly contravenes the general preference for minimization…
Disclaiming epistemic access with 'know' and 'remember' in Finnish
Units in responsive turns
Free NPs as units in Finnish
This article focuses on free NPs, i.e. noun phrases that are grammatically not part of any clause but form units of their own. Using the methodology of discourse-functional and interactional linguistics, I analyze the morphosyntactic, prosodic and interactional features of free NPs in conversational Finnish. With its rich morphological marking, Finnish provides an interesting perspective on free NPs: Morphosyntactic features, together with semant…
Insubordinate relative clauses in Finnish – old and new
This article concerns insubordination, the use of clause types ordinarily considered subordinate without main clauses (Evans 2007). We study the use of insubordinate relative clauses (RCs) in two corpora, the Arkisyn corpus of contemporary Finnish conversation and the Agricola corpus from the 16th century. Our main findings are that the construction is put to very similar uses in the two corpora, but that it is more common in the newer corpus. We…
Are main clauses really ‘main’ clauses? The case of relative clauses in spoken Estonian and Finnish
The article concerns relative clause constructions and their main clauses in Estonian and Finnish conversation. The study shows that copula clauses and existential clauses predominate in the corpus data: these two clause types accounted for more than half of the main clauses. Such main clauses serve simply to introduce a referent which is then predicated upon in the relative clause and is likely to be subsequently discussed in the conversation. I…
Predicating without a lexical verb
Linguistics (13 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (12 works) · Computer Science (11 works) · Philosophy (11 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (7 works) · Conversation (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (6 works) · Grammar (5 works)