Lea Laitinen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Lea Laitinen plays a role.
2012 Performing identities and interaction through epistolary formulae Letter Writing in Late Modern Europe, Dossena, Marina and Gabriella Del Lungo Camiciotti (eds.), pp. 65–88 | Article
This article studies the exchange of correspondence between Finnish emigrants and their close relations in the latter part of the nineteenth century. The main goal of the article is to describe how the linguistic and social identities as writers are constructed in these letters on the basis of both… read more
2006 Person in Finnish: Paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations in interaction Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Lyle Campbell (eds.), pp. 173–207 | Article
The paper by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lea Laitinen provides an overview to person marking in Finnish. It aims to contribute to resolving some of the long-standing confusions surrounding how person has been dealt with in Finnish grammar. In Finnish, the predicate verb agrees with the subject in… read more
2006 Zero person in Finnish: A grammatical resource for construing human reference Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Lyle Campbell (eds.), pp. 209–231 | Article
Lea Laitinen’s article deals with the grammar and meaning of Finnish constructions containing the so-called ‘zero person’ subject. In these constructions, there is no overt subject, and the verb is in the 3rd person singular form. The meanings of the construction are investigated in conversational… read more
2004 Grammaticalization and standardization Up and down the Cline – The Nature of Grammaticalization, Fischer, Olga, Muriel Norde and Harry Perridon (eds.), pp. 247–262 | Article
2002 From logophoric pronoun to discourse particle: A case study of Finnish and Saami New Reflections on Grammaticalization, Wischer, Ilse and Gabriele Diewald (eds.), pp. 327–344 | Article