Sirkka Saarinen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Sirkka Saarinen plays a role.
Articles
2022 Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:1, pp. 4–42 | Article
This paper presents the Uralic Areal Typology Online (UraTyp 1.0), a typological dataset of 35 Uralic languages and a total of 360 features, mainly covering the levels of morphology, syntax, and phonology. The features belong to two different datasets: 195 features’ definitions originate from… read more
2017 Chapter 11. The Mari essive and its functional counterparts Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State, Groot, Casper de (ed.), pp. 261–281 | Chapter
This chapter presents an empirical study of forms and constructions in Mari, a language without an essive or translative case marker, where other Uralic languages may use the essive or translative. The description of the properties of these forms and constructions follows the linguistic… read more
2015 Negation in Mari Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 325–352 | Article
The negation system of Mari (Eastern and Western literary languages) is mainly based on the use of the negative auxiliary, which takes personal endings. Its stem varies in tenses and moods. In some cases the suffixed verb ‘be’ is attached to the negative auxiliary, and this form displays functions… read more