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Publication details [#31988]
Hakulinen, Auli and Eeva-Leena Seppänen. 1992. Finnish kato: From verb to particle. Journal of Pragmatics 18 (6) : 527–549.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper examines the development of the imperative form of the Finnish verb katsoa (to look) into a particle kato in spoken language, using Brown and Levinson's (1988) model which considers the conversational situation as motivation for the grammatical change. It also discusses Traugott's hypothesis about the possible direction of grammatical changes.