The genitive case and the possessive construction in Finnish

Mahieu, Marc-Antoine

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“…En effet, bien que le cas génitif soit une manière possible de relier un nom tête à un syntagme génitif, il a généralement des emplois qui ne correspondent pas à la définition que nous avons donnée de la construction génitive. En finnois, par exemple, le cas génitif est un cas ne faisant que refléter certaines relations de dépendances syntaxiques entre les constituants (Mahieu, 2013). Dans le syntagme äärettömän yksinkertainen ('infiniment simple'), le mot äärettömä ('infini') est au cas génitif alors qu'aucun nom n'est présent dans le syntagme.…”

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Analyse typologique et syntaxique du génitif wolof

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2015

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“…This multifunctionality could be interpreted as indicating semantic emptiness. This interpretation would serve as evidence that the Finnish genitive is first and foremost a structural default case for the specifier position (Vainikka , 2011, or even a marker without semantic content with different uses that are separate syntactic relations (Mahieu 2013). Indeed, the genitive nouns are predominantly used as modifiers, and the wide polysemy that results is difficult to summarize by one or two basic meanings.…”

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The Finnish Case System: Cognitive Linguistic Perspectives

2023

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This volume presents an up-to-date cognitive-linguistic account of the Finnish cases that would serve the interests of an international audience. As the Finnish linguistic tradition has always considered grammatical cases to be meaningful elements, this volume also addresses the extensive work by earlier scholars from different theoretical backgrounds. The volume consists of an introduction and eleven articles. The introduction presents the system of Finnish cases and provides a brief overview of the main tenets of cognitive linguistics, offering guidance for those readers who are not familiar with cognitive linguistics. Some articles focus on one case and present a unified account of its functions, others analyse a larger group of cases that form a system (the local cases), whereas yet others address the use of cases in certain constructions (such as expressions of change). This collection of articles also discusses more general topics, such as the notion of case, questions of polysemy, the traditional division of cases into grammatical and semantic, the relationship between inflection and derivation, and the role of inflection in the categories of adpositions and adverbs.

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The explicative genitive and close apposition

Sæbø

2018

Nat Lang Linguist Theory

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The genitive in languages like Czech, German, Japanese or Latin is notoriously multiply ambiguous. Some senses (partitive, possessive, relational, objective) are more or less well-studied, but one, in particular, is understudied: the explicative genitive (also called the genitive of apposition or of definition). I discuss this genitive across several languages and argue that it encodes the inverse of the function that the definite article is standardly taken to encode. Like the definite article, the explicative genitive (also: the EG) is polymorphic, taking arguments of a wide range of logical types. I further argue that many cases of apposition involve the EG meaning, more specifically, that so-called close apposition should be modeled in terms of a covert EG.

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The genitive case and the possessive construction in Finnish

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Analyse typologique et syntaxique du génitif wolof

Analyse typologique et syntaxique du génitif wolof

The Finnish Case System: Cognitive Linguistic Perspectives

The explicative genitive and close apposition

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