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Distributional differences in the use of partitive objects in Estonian and Finnish

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The article compares the distributional differences in the use of the partitive object cases in Estonian and Finnish via multifactorial modeling in contrastive research using the European Parliament parallel text corpus. Based on previous contrastive research on Finnic, we expected the principles of object case marking to be similar for Estonian and Finnish (confirmed), and the partitive objects to be more numerous in Estonian than in Finnish (not confirmed, as countable objects with scalar verbs proved less likely to be partitive in Estonian). We hypothesized that multifactorial modeling in contrastive research design could help identify the causes for variation and unfold subtle differences between related language systems. Since preferences related to grammatical voice and constituent order revealed subtle differences between the systems, this hypothesis was confirmed.

Keywords: partitive, accusative, total, object case, Estonian, Finnish, Finnic, aspect, scalarity, boundedness, quantification, impersonal, passive, grammatical voice, word order, constituent order, verb classes in text registers, multifactorial modeling, mupdar, European Parliament corpus, contrastive research design
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Previous approaches based on corpora
  • 3.Objectives and hypotheses
  • 4.Data and methods
    • 4.1The data
      • Contents
      • Preprocessing and sampling
      • Manual annotation and variable description
    • 4.2MuPDARF as the statistical method
  • 5.Results
    • 5.1Model 1: Finnish object case alternation
    • 5.2Model 2: Estonian object case alternation
    • 5.3Cross-linguistic predictions
    • 5.4Models 3 & 4: Clearly deviating predictions
  • 6.Discussion
  • 7.Limitations
  • 8.Conclusions
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 21 February 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lv.23042.iva
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