JOURNAL ARTICLE

Same yet different: Distributional differences in the use of partitive objects in Estonian and Finnish.

  • Published In: Linguistic Variation, 2024, v. 24, n. 2. P. 323 1 of 3

  • Database: Communication Source 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Ivaska, Ilmari; Tamm, Anne 3 of 3

Abstract

The article compares the distributional differences in the use of the partitive object cases in Estonian and Finnish via multifactorial modeling in contrastive research using the European Parliament parallel text corpus. Based on previous contrastive research on Finnic, we expected the principles of object case marking to be similar for Estonian and Finnish (confirmed), and the partitive objects to be more numerous in Estonian than in Finnish (not confirmed, as countable objects with scalar verbs proved less likely to be partitive in Estonian). We hypothesized that multifactorial modeling in contrastive research design could help identify the causes for variation and unfold subtle differences between related language systems. Since preferences related to grammatical voice and constituent order revealed subtle differences between the systems, this hypothesis was confirmed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Linguistic Variation. 2024/07, Vol. 24, Issue 2, p323
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Language and Linguistics
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:2211-6834
  • DOI:10.1075/lv.23042.iva
  • Accession Number:180922131
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