Fluid intransitivity in Old Finnish
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20467727 |
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| Authors | Merlijn De Smit (0000-0001-9778-1656, Stockholm University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 2016 |
| Issue | 63 |
| Publication date | 2019-10-20 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0355-1253 • E-ISSN: 0355-1253 |
| Publisher | Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.33339/fuf.86124 |
| OpenAlex | W2981895644 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
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 New Testament and the NT portion of the 1642 Biblia. I will examine various factor groups that may influence the variation found between A-like and O-like subjects in these clauses, such as polarity, quantity, clause type and others. I will then examine the relative strength of these factor groups by a multivariate analysis. Results are that polarity is a stronger factor than quantity, and that possessive clauses exhibit O-like subjects to a greater degree than other clauses. Possible explanations for these results will be discussed
Natural Language Processing Techniques · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation · Geology
| Highly cited | No |
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