The Livonian Jussive: A Corpus Analysis
The Livonian Jussive: A Corpus Analysis
Author(s): Milda DailidėnaitėSubject(s): Finno-Ugrian studies
Published by: Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus
Keywords: Livonian language; jussive; hortative; imperative; morphosyntax; corpus linguistics;
Summary/Abstract: Livonian like other Finnic languages has a complex morphological system. Unlike, e.g., Finnish and Estonian, Livonian has not been systematically standardised and thus exhibits vast variability in usage. This article discusses the results of a morphosyntactic corpus analysis of the Livonian jussive mood. The article presents previous research on the Livonian jussive, formal aspects of jussive occurrences in the corpus, and an analysis of arguments of the jussive predicates. Jussive object marking is given more attention due to the ambiguity of case marking in Livonian, namely, nominative and genitive (sometimes even partitive) forms frequently coincide. A possible interpretation of the ambiguous cases is suggested based on their usage and restrictions.
Journal: Linguistica Uralica
- Issue Year: LIX/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 1-24
- Page Count: 24
- Language: English
