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Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent StateEdited by Casper de Groot
[Typological Studies in Language 119] 2017
► pp. 185–215
Chapter 8The essive in South Saami
This chapter presents an empirical study of the distribution of a marker referred to as the ‘essive’ in South Saami. The description of the properties of this marker follows the linguistic questionnaire that captures the contexts in which essive and/or translative markers may occur in the Uralic languages. The study specifically investigates the opposition between permanent and impermanent state in non-verbal predications. The linguistic domains involved are non-verbal main predication, secondary predication, complementation, and manner, temporal, and circumstantial adverbial phrases. The use of the marker in the essive sense (associated with state) is contrasted with its use in expressing the translative sense (associated with change). Finally, the syntactic position of elements marked by this form is discussed in relation to the position of focus constituents.
Keywords: South Saami, depictive, essive case, impermanent state, non-verbal predication, individual-level predicate, stage-level predicate, focus
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 1.1Data
- 1.2A grammatical profile of South Saami
- 1.3A condensed inventory of South Saami morphosyntactic peculiarities
- 1.4The South Saami essive
- 2.Copula constructions
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3.Secondary predication
- 3.1Semantic funtions encoded by the South Saami essive
- 3.2Essive marked constituents and their relation to depictives
- 4.The essive in predicative complements
- 5.Adverbials
- 6.Temporality and Location
- 7.Comparative and simile expressions
- 8.Essive versus translative
- 8.1Essive as essive
- 8.2Essive as translative
- 8.3Constructional properties versus verbal semantics
- 9.Word order and focus
- 9.1Focus
- 9.2Notes on word order
- 9.2.1Essive marked elements in non-verbal predication and intransitive predication
- 9.2.2Transitive clauses
- 10.Other remarks
- 10.1Forms with essive compatible semantics
- 10.2Historical notes
- 11.Conclusions
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References
Published online: 30 November 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.119.08sie
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.119.08sie
References
Corpus
The underlying corpus for this study has been extracted from the following text collections and pedagogical materials though not all text collections are quoted in this contribution. Examples from materials used can be identified via their acronyms and their reference to text number and/or page number:
Lagercrantz, Eliel
[SBP] data from elicitation
Bergsland, Knut
Beronka, Johan
Collinder, Björn
Hasselbrink, Gustav
Hedlund, Cecilia
2012 Some remarks on the verb lea- ‘be’ in old Härjedalen Sámi. In Lapponicae investigationes et uralicae – Festschrift zum 65. Geburtstag von Lars-Gunnar Larsson [Veröffentlichungen der Societas Uralo-Altaica 82], Eberhard E. Winkler, Hans Hermann Bartens & Cornelius Hasselblatt (eds), 47–59. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz.
Himmelmann, Nikolaus P. & Schultze-Berndt, Eva
Israelsson, Per-Martin & Sakka, Nejne
Lagercrantz, Eliel
Larsson, Lars-Gunnar
Nystø, Anders & Johnsen, Sigmund
Rydving, Håkan
Siegl, Florian