Ilmaütlevast Eitusest

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ID22304800
AuthorsAnni Tamm (0000-0002-5804-0174, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume68
Issue1
Pages166-190
Publication date2023-06-11
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Yearbook of the Estonian Mother Tongue Society (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0206-3735 • E-ISSN: 2228-1215
PublisherEstonian Academy Publishers (PUBLISHER • EE)
DOI10.3176/esa68.08
OpenAlexW4380248656
LanguageET
References cited8

The Estonian abessive shares characteristics with almost all Uralic languages, which have abessives, caritives or privatives. As many other Uralic languages, the Estonian abessive emerges in both verbal (as the -mata form) and nominal forms (as -ta). The nominal and verbal abessive forms are optionally complements of the preposition ilma â withoutâ in Estonian. The agglutinative features and rich case system of Estonian is not matched by its non-Finnic contact languages in the European area. The focus of the study is how the verbal abessive fits into the functional gaps in the verbal paradigms of newly developed and analytically expressed tenses such as the perfects. A corpus study supports the hypothesis that the -mata form is taking on more verbal properties and losing nominal properties in its developments towards a construction expressing the negation of the perfect

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