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- Title
DEMONSTRATIVE PROADJECTIVES IN LIVONIAN - MORPHOSYNTACTIC USE AND SEMANTIC FUNCTIONS.
- Authors
Tomingas, Marili
- Abstract
In Livonian and other Finnic languages, demonstratives are a widely used and important group of words, often showing distal oppositions and other referential differences. Demonstrative proadjectives are a type of demonstrative word that has not been much researched thus far, as their meaning depends mostly on the other parts of the text. The present article describes the origin of Livonian demonstratives and focuses on demonstrative proadjectives and their use. Utilising example sentences from the Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary (Viitso, Ernštreits 2012), this study analyses the morphosyntactic use of demonstrative proadjectives and also makes observations on their semantic functions. For the morphosyntactic analysis, four parameters of demonstrative proadjectives are described: their attributiveness or non-attributiveness, their syntactic function, the case in which they are used, and their singular or plural use. In addition, observations on possible semantic functions are made using different types of sentences in which demonstrative proadjectives occur.
- Subjects
LIVONIAN language; MORPHOSYNTAX; FINNIC languages; DEMONSTRATIVES (Grammar); FRAMES (Linguistics)
- Publication
Journal of Estonian & Finno-Ugric Linguistics / Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2018, Vol 9, Issue 2, p241
- ISSN
1736-8987
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12697/jeful.2018.9.2.11