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Publication details [#10315]

Yli-Vakkuri, Valma. 1978. 'Hän sanoi nimekseen Virtanan': Erään päätteettömän objektityypin taustaa. Publications of the Department of Finnish and General Linguistics 6 : 306–322.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
Finnish

Annotation

Y. describes certain types of sentences where the object, a proper noun, can appear in two forms: in an accusative either with or without a case ending. The normative grammar considers the latter to be ungrammatical, but the form occurs in actual use. Y. claims that the function of the 'ungrammatical' form is to give pragmatic information, e.g. about the truth value of the sentence.