Case alternations in five Finnic languages : Estonian, Finnish, Karelian, Livonian and Veps / by Aet Lees.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1 The Aim of the Study -- 2 The Organization of the Present Study -- 3 Background Information Concerning the Languages -- 4 The Finnic Case System -- Chapter 2 Corpus and Methods -- 1 The Corpus -- 2 Methods -- Chapter 3 Object Case in Modern Finnic Languages -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Choice of Case Form from the Accusative Group -- 3 Negation -- 4 Alternation between Accusative and Partitive -- 5 Adverbial 'Objects' -- 6 Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4 Synchronic Corpus Study of Object Case Alternation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 General Comments about the Languages -- 3 Results from the Synchronic Biblical Corpus -- 4 Summary and Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5 Diachronic Study of Object Case -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Old Estonian Texts -- 3 Old Estonian Grammars -- 4 Estonian Secular Texts -- 5 Estonian Bible Texts -- 6 Finnish -- 7 Comparison of Old Finnish and Old Estonian -- 8 Karelian -- 9 Livonian -- 10 Veps -- 11 Final Comments -- Chapter 6 The Undergoer (Logical Object) of Impersonaland Passive Verbs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Impersonal -- 3 Compound Tenses of Impersonal Verbs -- 5 Personal Passive -- 6 Non-finite Passive Verbs -- 7 The Undergoer -- 8 The Agent -- 9 Synchronic Studies from the Corpus -- 10 Diachronic Southern Estonian Study -- 11 Northern (Standard) Estonian -- 12 Summary of Estonian Impersonal and Periphrastic Passive -- 13 Finnish Diachronic Study -- 14 Comparison of Estonian and Finnish -- 15 Karelian -- 16 Livonian -- 17 Veps -- 18 General Summary -- Chapter 7 Object Case in Relation to Verb Form -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Imperative Verbs -- 3 Infinitives -- 4 Participles -- 5 Summary -- Chapter 8 Copula Clauses -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Noun Phrase Copula Complements -- 3 Adjectival Copula Complements.

4 Diachronic Studies of Partitive Copula Complements -- 5 Summary -- Chapter 9 Existential and Related Clauses -- 1 Existential Clauses -- 2 Possessive Clauses -- 3 Comparison of Possessive and Canonical Existential Clauses -- 4 Other Related Clauses -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 10 Summary and Conclusions -- 1 Synchronic Corpus Study of Objects (Chapter 4) -- 2 Diachronic Studies (Chapter 5) -- 3 Impersonal and Passive (Chapter 6) -- 4 Verb Form (Chapter 7) -- 5 Predicates (Chapter 8) -- 6 Existential Clauses (Chapter 9) -- 7 Future Trends -- 8 Final Summarizing Remarks -- Corpus Bibliography -- Bibles, New Testaments and Gospels in the Corpus -- Bibles and New Testaments Consulted but not in the Corpus -- References -- Index.

This corpus study presents a comparative analysis of the case of objects of various verb forms, and also subjects in existential clauses in five Finnic languages. Differences between present languages and historical changes in each language are discussed.

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