On the development of the clitic postposition category in Estonian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20467744 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joel Ashmore Nevis |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 1987 |
| Issue | 48 |
| Pages | 171-197 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| 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.114345 |
| OpenAlex | W4210942603 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 4 |
On the development of the clitic postposition category in Estonian* 1. Introduction The clitic postpositions are a recent innovation in Estonian, arising as a definite category by the mid sixteenth century, early seventeenth century. The four clitic postpositionsthe comitative, abessive, terrninative, and essive (acronyrnically the CATE morphemes)have arrived in this category via diverse paths. These developments are explored here and relevant theoretical issues brought out. 1.1. What's a clitic? A clitic is a morpheme, possibly morphologically complex, having a mixed word/affix status. This is to say that it has some properties of words and some properties of affixes. Both diachronically and synchronically the clitic appears to be intermediate between the word and the affix. Continuing along the lines of previous work (Nevis 1985), I adopt the position that clitics are not primitive units of the grammar, but are deriva-*I thank Rich Janda for discussion of some of the terminology; he is not, however, responsible for all of the shortcomings of the terminological selections. In addition, I thank Use Lehiste for having taught me Estonian in the first place, for acting at times as respondent and consultant, and for commenting on early (1982) drafts of this work. Parts of this paper were presented in Brian Joseph's (1982) OSU seminar on historical syntax-morphology, and 1 thank him for comments at that time. In 1983 -84 I was on fellowship at the University of Helsinki (thanks to the American-Scandinavian Foundation and the U. S. Educational Foundation in Finland), where I was able to continue this line of research. Professor Seppo Suhonen of the Department of Baltic Finnic was very helpful in discussing the work of the older grammarians. In addition, I thank Jarmo Elomaa for being my "vastavittj" when I presented some
Clitic · Estonian · Geography · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Lexicography and Language Studies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
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| Citation span | 2000 - 2017 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |