KOGESIN VAPUSTUST VÕI VAPUSTUSE? SIHILISED VERBID VALIKUTE EES
ESTONIAN TRANSITIVE VERBS FACING CHOICES

Summary/Abstract: Estonian transitive verbs are traditionally divided into partitive, aspect, and perfective verbs. While the classic definitions state that partitive verbs are to express imperfective aspect and to be applied with partitive objects only, and perfective verbs to appear with total objects in genitive or nominative cases, both verb types may allow differentional object case alternation (DOM) under certain circumstances. Object case alternation could be seen as regular (or distinguishing aspect) and non-regular (e.g., differentiating meanings of a verb, depending on context, object features, ‘neutral’ aspect, or the structure of a fixed expression). All these cases are analysed in the article based on the Estonian National Corpus 2017 materials.

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