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- Title
MULTIPLE MOTIVATIONS FOR MEANING OF AN ELATIVE WH-CONSTRUCTION IN ESTONIAN.
- Authors
Pajusalu, Renate
- Abstract
The article discusses an elative wh-construction [mis NPnominative NPelative V?] in the Estonian language. Formally the construction is a question, but pragmatically it can be regarded as prohibition or negation of the sense of the proposition. It is a mixed construction, which consists of lexical, morphological, and pragmatic elements. The aim is to analyse what motivates the formation of the meaning of the construction.
- Subjects
MOTIVATION (Psychology); CONSTRUCTION (Philosophy); ESTONIAN language; SEMANTICS; BALTIC-Finnic languages
- Publication
TRAMES: A Journal of the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2006, Vol 10, Issue 4, p324
- ISSN
1406-0922
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3176/tr.2006.4.02