Liina Lindström
List of John Benjamins publications for which Liina Lindström plays a role.
Articles
2021 Variation in negation in Seto Postverbal negation, Krasnoukhova, Olga, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels (eds.), pp. 557–597 | Article
Seto is an exceptional language in the Uralic family due to its systematic use of postverbal negation, although preverbal and double negation marking are also used. Postverbal negation is still the most frequent and unmarked pattern occurring in about 74% of negative clauses in Seto. This paper… read more
2017 Chapter 3. The essive in Estonian Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State, Groot, Casper de (ed.), pp. 57–90 | Chapter
This chapter presents an empirical study of the distribution of the essive marker in Standard Estonian and Estonian dialects. The use of the essive has changed considerably in Estonian: it almost vanished from North Estonian but was revived in the 19th century. In South Estonian, the essive ending… read more
2015 Subjecthood of the agent argument in Estonian passive constructions Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Tuomas Huumo (eds.), pp. 141–173 | Article
This paper tackles diachronic changes in the choice between elative and adessive
case for marking the agent in Estonian periphrastic passive constructions in
two time periods. In 1800–1850, the main agent-marking device was the elative
case, whereas in the 1990s the elative was limited to inanimate… read more
2013 Between Finnic and Indo-European: Variation and change in the Estonian experiencer-object construction The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. and Leonid Kulikov (eds.), pp. 139–162 | Article
In the Estonian experiencer-object construction the experiencer bears typical object marking, and the stimulus is marked as a subject. Unlike most other Finnic languages, in Estonian the stimulus is an obligatory part of this construction. In this, the Estonian experiencer-object construction is… read more