Small Phrase Layers: A study of Finnish Manner Adverbials
Satu Manninen
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 65] 2003. xii, 275 pp.
Satu Manninen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Satu Manninen plays a role.
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Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
Articles
2013 How do things get done: On non-canonical passives in Finnish Non-Canonical Passives, Alexiadou, Artemis and Florian Schäfer (eds.), pp. 213–234 | Article
In this paper, we argue that, in addition to non-agreeing passives, Finnish has even an agreeing passive. The agreeing passive shows similar behaviour to non-canonical passives in other languages, such as get-passives in English. The agreeing passive differs from ordinary copular constructions in… read more
2013 Resultative passives in Finnish Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference, Brandtler, Johan, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack (eds.), pp. 179–198 | Article
In this article, I argue that Finnish passive participles (e.g. avattu ‘opened’ and suljettu ‘closed’) can be multiply ambiguous: the “same” morphophonological forms exhibit different patterns of eventivity and agentivity, and are used to form “traditional” non-agreeing passives, agreeing… read more