Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical
Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Tuomas Huumo
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 16] 2015. viii, 324 pp.
Tuomas Huumo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Tuomas Huumo plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2023 Chapter 7. The Finnish existential clause: Aspect, case marking and quantification of the S argument Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions, Sarda, Laure and Ludovica Lena (eds.), pp. 220–244 | Chapter
I analyze the case marking (nominative vs. partitive) and quantification of the Finnish existential S argument (Se). I focus on Se arguments quantified by mass quantifiers (e.g. paljon ‘much’) and number quantifiers (e.g. usea ‘many’). I discuss grammatical, semantic and discourse functions of… read more
2022 Chapter 12. Moving reader or moving text? Contrasts and analogies between metaphors of time and text organization in Finnish Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics, Krawczak, Karolina, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel (eds.), pp. 371–404 | Chapter
This chapter is concerned with metaphors of text organization that are instantiated by metaphorical expressions pertaining to metatextual relations, i.e. relations between different parts of a text or between a text and its reader (e.g. as noted in the foregoing chapters). The purpose of the… read more
2018 Langacker, R. W. (2016). Nominal structure in Cognitive Grammar: The Lublin lectures Issues in Humour Cognition, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 305–310 | Review
2015 Canonical and non-canonical subjects in constructions: Perspectives from cognition and discourse Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Tuomas Huumo (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article
2015 On the subject of subject in Finnish Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Tuomas Huumo (eds.), pp. 13–41 | Article
This article examines the category of subject in Finnish. Among the grammatical
features examined are case marking, agreement and syntax, semantic role,
its relation to other sentence elements and its semantic function as regards the
sentence as a whole. One important discourse feature is whether… read more
2012 Discontinuous constituents or independent constructions? The case of the Finnish “split genitive” Constructions and Frames 4:1, pp. 56–75 | Article
In many formal theories of grammar, pairs of expressions such as the active and the passive are treated as variants of each other — the passive typically being a secondary construction derived from the active by operations that change the syntactic structure. Recent accounts based on Cognitive… read more
2006 “I woke up from the sofa”: Subjective directionality in Finnish expressions of a spatio-cognitive transfer Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Lyle Campbell (eds.), pp. 41–65 | Article
Tuomas Huumo’s paper is a study on fictive motion as manifested by the uses of the Finnish directional (‘to’ vs. ‘from’) local cases in expressions that involve a cognitive change. The cognitive change takes place in the relationship between an experiencer and a stimulus, in such a way that the… read more
2006 An introduction to Finnish spatial relations: Local cases and adpositions Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Lyle Campbell (eds.), pp. 11–20 | Article
In their paper, Tuomas Huumo and Krista Ojutkangas first introduce the system of Finnish local cases in general and then discuss the main features of the system of adpositions. The Finnish system for expressing spatial relations consists of six local cases and many adpositions, the precise number… read more
2001 Scalar Particles and the Sequential Space Construction Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Cuyckens, Hubert and Britta E. Zawada (eds.), pp. 37 ff. | Article