Merja Salo
List of John Benjamins publications for which Merja Salo plays a role.
Articles
2011 Meteorological verbs in Uralic languages – are there any impersonal structures to be found Impersonal Constructions: A cross-linguistic perspective, Malchukov, Andrej L. and Anna Siewierska (eds.), pp. 395–438 | Article
Finno-Ugric and Samoyed meteorological verbs form an interesting and insufficiently studied group with much internal diversity. Some verbs have zero valence, others display a more or less semantically faded subject, yet others feature an object. There are also expressions which have simply… read more
2006 The passive in Erzya-Mordvin folklore Passivization and Typology: Form and function, Abraham, Werner and Larisa Leisiö (eds.), pp. 165–190 | Article
The aim of this research is to shed some light on theMordvin passive, an inadequately studied grammatical aspect of the language. Passive sentences contain a special polyfunctional derivative suffix -v-. Since only some groups of verbs with this suffix are passive, final judgement on the meaning… read more