Uralic essive and the expression of impermanent state / editor, Casper de Groot.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Groot, C. de (Casper), editor.

Series:

Typological studies in language ; 119.

Typological Studies in Language, 0167-7373 ; Volume 119

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Uralic languages--Case.

Uralic languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English ‘as (a child)’. It focuses on the distribution of the essive in contemporary Uralic languages with special attention to the opposition between permanent and impermanent state. The volume presents large sets of new data and insights into the use of the essive in nineteen Uralic languages on the basis of a typological linguistic questionnaire. The typological variation is discussed within the linguistic domains of non-verbal main predication, secondary predication, complementation, and manner, temporal, and circumstantial adverbial phrases. The descriptions and analyses are presented in such a way that they are accessible to linguists in general, descriptive and theoretical linguists, and specialists in Uralic and/or linguistic typology. The data and approach offer many starting points for further investigations within but also outside the Uralic language family.

Contents:

Intro

Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Abbreviations

Preface

1. Discovering the assignment

1. Expectations

2. The search

3. The method

4. The Uralic essive typological questionnaire

5. The aim

6. The contents

References

2. The essive in Finnish

1. Introduction

1.1 Standard case inflection for nouns

1.2 The semantic border zones of the essive and other cases

2. Non-verbal predicates and copula constructions

2.1 Predicate types in Finnish

2.2 Basic copula constructions

2.3 Semi-copular constructions

2.4 The quasi-construction

3. Secondary predicates - secondary predications

3.1 Depictives

3.2 Circumstantial secondary predicates

3.3 Temporal secondary predicates

4. Predicative complements

5. Adverbials

5.1 Manner adverbials

5.2 Clausal adverbials

6. Temporality and location

6.1 Temporality

6.2 Location

7. Comparative and simile

8. Essive versus translative

9. Word order and focus

10. Other uses

10.1 Verbal participles

10.2 Augmentative

11. Summary

3. The essive in Estonian

1.1 Data

1.2 Formation

1.4 The revival of the essive

2. Non-verbal predication

3. Secondary predication

3.1 The essive as a marker of secondary predicates

3.2 Depictives

3.3 Circumstantials

3.4 Temporals

4. Complements

7. Comparatives and expressions of similarity

9. Word order

10. Conclusions

Sources

4. The essive in Votic

1.2 Case system

1.3 State case series

2.1 Copula constructions

2.2 Semi-copula constructions.

2.3 Constructions with modal verbs

2.4 Restrictions on the types of predicates that can be encoded by the essive

2.5 Formal restrictions

Animacy

Person and number

Tense

Number agreement

7. Comparative and simile expressions

10. Conclusions and final remarks

5. The essive in Ingrian

1.1 Language

1.2 Data

1.3 Case system

2.2 Constructions with modal verbs

2.3 Restrictions

2.4 Number agreement

6. The essive in Veps

1.1 The Veps case system

1.2 The Veps essive and secondary predicates

1.3 The translative in parallel constructions

10. Conclusion and final remarks

7. The essive in Karelian

1.1 The case system of Karelian

1.2 The essive in Karelian

6.1 Temporal use

6.2 Locational use

6.2.1 Locative

6.2.2 Separative

9. Conclusions and final remarks

8. The essive in South Saami

1. Introduction.

1.1 Data

1.2 A grammatical profile of South Saami

1.3 A condensed inventory of South Saami morphosyntactic peculiarities

1.4 The South Saami essive

2. Copula constructions

3.1 Semantic funtions encoded by the South Saami essive

3.2 Essive marked constituents and their relation to depictives

4. The essive in predicative complements

6. Temporality and Location

8.1 Essive as essive

8.2 Essive as translative

8.3 Constructional properties versus verbal semantics

9.1 Focus

9.2 Notes on word order

9.2.1 Essive marked elements in non-verbal predication and intransitive predication

9.2.2 Transitive clauses

10. Other remarks

10.1 Forms with essive compatible semantics

10.2 Historical notes

11. Conclusions

Corpus

9. The essive in North Saami

3.1 Depictive essive

3.2 'Essive-like depictive in' -naga

3.3 Circumstantial essive

7. Comparative and simile expressions (and related functions of the essive)

10. The essive in Skolt Saami

3. Secondary predications

3.2 Circumstantials

3.3 Temporals

8. Essive vs. translative

8.1 Non-verbal predicates

8.2 Secondary predicates (resultatives)

10. Final remarks

Data sources

References.

11. The Mari essive and its functional counterparts

1.1 Background

1.2 The case system

1.3 Sources

5. Adverbials: Temporality

6. Comparative and simile expressions

7. Essive versus translative

8. Word order

9. Conclusion

12. The Komi answer to the essive question

1.1 The case system of Komi

1.2 The distribution of the instrumental and other relevant cases

1.3 General characterization of the functions in Komi: From locative *-'n' to instrumental and inessive

2.1 Case marking in non-verbal predications

2.2 Agreement phenomena

3.1.1 Depictives coreferential with the subject

3.1.2 Depictives coreferential with the object

3.2 Converbs as depictives

5.1 General

5.2 Instrumental in manner adverbials

6.1 Instrumental in temporal adverbials

6.1.1 The use of the instrumental to express a segment in time is common in Komi-Zyryan (and Udmurt), and most regular in Komi-Permyak

6.1.2 For time-frame adverbials the instrumental is used, however only in Komi

6.1.3 Instrumental has a sociative-temporal meaning, where the event time is determined by another event

6.1.4 The instrumental is used in Komi in a distributive-temporal meaning: periods that last and are repeated at intervals, with plural temporal expression

6.2 Instrumental in locational adverbials

7. Instrumental in simile expressions

9. Conclusion and final remarks

Sources of examples

13. The Udmurt essive and its functional counterparts

1.2 The case system in Udmurt.

2. Non-verbal predicates

9. Conclusions

14. The essives in Hungarian

0. Preliminary

1.1 Hungarian and the Hungarians

1.2 The case inventory of Hungarian

1.3 Hungarian productive essive forms

1.4 Less productive and non-productive forms

3.1 Depictive

3.1.1 General properties of depictives with an essive in Hungarian

3.1.2 -ként

3.1.3 -ul/-ül

3.1.4 -n/-an/-en

3.1.5 Other (markers of) depictives

3.2 Resultative

5. Manner adverbials

6. Temporality, circumstance, and location

6.1 Temporal expressions

6.2 Circumstantial expressions

6.3 Locational expressions

15. The 'essive' in Eastern Khanty

1.1 The Khanty language

1.2 The data

1.3 The typological profile of Eastern Khanty

1.4 The Eastern Khanty case system

8. Translative vs. essive

Data

16. The essive-translative in Mansi

1.1 The Mansi language

1.2 The typological characterization of the Mansi language

1.3 The corpora

1.4 Mansi case system

2. Non-verbal predicates - copula constructions

3. Secondary predicates and secondary predications

5. Adverbials.

6. Temporality and location.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

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