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Serial Verbs in Finnish
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Author (aut): Koskinen, Päivi
Author (aut): Armoskaite, Solveiga
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Serial verb construction (SVC) phenomena pose challenges to descriptivists and theoreticians alike (Newmayer 2004, Aikhenvald & Dixon 2006, among many others). One recurring question is whether SVC is a language specific characteristic (cf. Stewart 2001) or whether it is a universally available construction utilized under specific conditions (cf. Déchaine 1993, Newmayer 2004, Muysken & Veenstra 2006). This study contributes to the debate with evidence from Finnish (Uralic language family), which has not previously been analyzed as a serializing language (contra Jarva & Kytölä 2007). Based on distributional facts as well as semantic and syntactic characteristics, we argue that the so called ‘colorative construction’ in Finnish is a SVC. |
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10.1349/PS1.1537-0852.A.438
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Finnish language
colorative construction
serial verb constructions
syntax
aspect
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