Incremental existence: the world according to the Finnish existential sentence

Huumo, Tuomas

doi:10.1515/ling.2003.016

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“…Using the nominative instead of the partitive would give the interpretation that the same individuals live everywhere, while the partitive indicates that the group was distributed over the space. Similar usages in Finnish have been discussed by Huumo (2001Huumo ( , 2003. He calls this usage incremental, following the notion of incremental theme by (Dowty 1991): it is a "participant whose part-whole relations are mapped onto the temporal part-whole relations of the event as a whole" (Huumo 2003).…”

Section: From Quantificational To Incremental Readingmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…Similar usages in Finnish have been discussed by Huumo (2001Huumo ( , 2003. He calls this usage incremental, following the notion of incremental theme by (Dowty 1991): it is a "participant whose part-whole relations are mapped onto the temporal part-whole relations of the event as a whole" (Huumo 2003). In these examples, PS expresses the distribution of the subject referent over space or time, i.e.…”

Section: From Quantificational To Incremental Readingmentioning

confidence: 81%

“…either distributively or incrementally. This effect is observable in existential constructions in Finnish that code a situation "from an external viewpoint" (Huumo 2003), i.e. as a holistic event/situation.…”

Section: From Quantificational To Incremental Readingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This can be observed in sentences which express an event where the referents of quantitatively indefinite partitive subjects are semantically distributed over space or time but are interpreted as part of a holistic event. (Huumo 2003).…”

Section: Semantic Conditions Determining the Use Of Pssmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Seržant explains these usages as expansions of the non-referentiality reading from the NP to the whole situation. (Seržant 2014) Semantically, it can also be explained by the holistic viewpoint over the event (Huumo 2003), i.e. the event is conceptualized from an external viewpoint and not from the viewpoint of the topical participant.…”

Section: Pss In Existential and Possessive Constructionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Partitive subjects in Estonian dialects

Lindström

2017

ESUKA-JEFUL

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Abstract. Nominative-partitive alternation in subject marking in Estonian occurs mainly in existentials and related constructions. The paper measures the overall frequency of use of partitive subjects (PS) in Estonian dialects to explore whether differences are found, which can be explained by language contacts. Second, it provides an overview of constructions where PSs occur in Estonian dialects. The data is obtained from the Corpus of Estonian Dialects (12 subdialects, 1517 instances of PS usage). The results show that in usage frequency of PSs, Estonian dialects are relatively uniform and there are no striking differences between the dialects. The use of PSs was less frequent in Northern-Seto (a South-Estonian subdialect, in the Russian contact area), where the use of PSs is more tightly associated with negative clauses than it is in other dialects. Negation is also generally the most powerful factor conditioning the use of PSs (explains 52% of the usages of PSs).

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Section: From Quantificational To Incremental Readingmentioning

confidence: 73%

Section: From Quantificational To Incremental Readingmentioning

confidence: 81%

Section: From Quantificational To Incremental Readingmentioning

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Section: Semantic Conditions Determining the Use Of Pssmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Pss In Existential and Possessive Constructionsmentioning

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Partitive subjects in Estonian dialects

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2017

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Structural Approach to Language Revitalisation: Revival of Aanaar Saami

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Ylikoski

2023

Arctic Encounters

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Aanaar Saami is an indigenous language spoken by an estimated 400 people mainly around Lake Aanaar in Northern Finland. Within the past three decades, the once critically endangered language has acquired dozens of new speakers. This study provides a novel overview of the recent development of Aanaar Saami by combining a structural perspective to language change and an analysis of language ideologies behind probably one of the most successful language revitalisation projects in Europe. As for the ideological themes pertaining to Finnish influence on Aanaar Saami, it is possible to identify four recurring themes in the literature: (1) good vs. poor language, (2) language competence, (3) institutional domain, and (4) tolerance. The revitalisation of Aanaar Saami shows that even large-scale contact-induced changes need not result in a loss of linguistic or cultural identity among minority language speakers.

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Many ways of moving along a path: What distinguishes prepositional and postpositional uses of Finnish path adpositions?

Huumo

2013

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Incremental existence: the world according to the Finnish existential sentence

Cited by 35 publications

References 6 publications

Partitive subjects in Estonian dialects

Partitive subjects in Estonian dialects

Structural Approach to Language Revitalisation: Revival of Aanaar Saami

Many ways of moving along a path: What distinguishes prepositional and postpositional uses of Finnish path adpositions?

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