Matti Kilpiö
List of John Benjamins publications for which Matti Kilpiö plays a role.
Articles
2013 Causative habban in Old English: Tracing the Development of a Budding Construction Comparative Studies in Early Germanic Languages: With a focus on verbal categories, Diewald, Gabriele, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka and Ilse Wischer (eds.), pp. 101–126 | Article
The budding causative use of Old English habban ‘have’ has so far received little attention in the literature compared to other Old English periphrastic causatives. The construction with habban represents indirect passive causation and corresponds to the Present-Day English construction of the type… read more
2011 Old English etymologies in Christfrid Ganander’s Nytt Finskt Lexicon (1787) Words in Dictionaries and History: Essays in honour of R.W. McConchie, Timofeeva, Olga and Tanja Säily (eds.), pp. 131–152 | Article
Christfrid Ganander’s (1741–1790) Nytt Finskt Lexicon is the first etymological Finnish dictionary. Due to unfavourable circumstances, it was not published in the author’s lifetime but it did survive in manuscript form. The dictionary, which has more than 30,000 headwords, contains close on 50 Old… read more