Merlijn de Smit
List of John Benjamins publications for which Merlijn de Smit plays a role.
Article
2016 The problem of the Old Finnish passive Journal of Historical Linguistics 6:1, pp. 32–71 | To be specified
Old Finnish (1540–1809) shows variation between non-promotional and promotional passives. Historically, there is reason to suppose that the Finnic passive was originally promotional and that a shift to a non-promotional passive already took place during Proto-Finnic times. At first sight, the… read more