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Rajan saavuttamista ja ylittämistä ilmaisevat konstruktiot muutoksessa
Get PDFThe paper focuses on the pseudo-terminative construction of the type Lämpötila nousee yli kolmeenkymmeneen asteeseen (lit. 'the temperature rises up to above thirty degrees') apparently expressing the crossing of a threshold by means of the adverb yli, and at the same time the arrival at the threshold in question by means of an illative in -seen. This construction is used virtually synonymously with another type of construction in which the preposition yli takes a genitive form in order to express the crossing of a threshold. Data from a survey as well as from a text corpus analysed in this paper indicate that this construction has seen a steady increase in relative frequency. The author discusses various possibilities of semantic differentiation resulting from the coexistence of the two constructions. These possibilities are unlikely to have given rise to the pseudo-terminative construction, however. Its rapidly growing acceptance within the speech community can be attributed to the fact that it provides an alternative means of linguistic conceptualization. It is most likely the product of morphosyntactic analogy: With their requirements regarding argument directionality, the movement verbs preceding the lexeme yli have neutralised the original prepositional government
The Social status of languages in Finland and Lithuania: a plurimethodological empirical survey on language climate change
No full textSeries editor’s short introduction -- Editors’ Preface -- On the Relationship between Language Attitudes and Linguistic Opinions in Finland / Yvonne Bindrim -- The Language Situation in Lithuania—Is There Anything to Worry About? / Anastasija Kostiučenko -- Language Climate in Finland / Vava Lunabba -- New Trends of Multilingualism in the Lithuanian Urban Space: the Private Sphere / -- Meilutė Ramonienė -- Lithuanian Language Policy: Past and Present Duel / Laima Kalėdienė.Reikšminiai žodžiai: Suomių kalba; Socialinis aspektas; Kalbos politika; Daugiakalbystė; Finnish language; Social aspect; Multilingualism; Language policyFor both Finland and Lithuania, there is already a well-established tradition in sociolinguistics of dealing with the language situation and policies of the respective countries. There is no shortage of related social-empirical surveys and above all, the social de facto-status of languages—i.e. the attitudes of the population towards majority and minority languages (i.e. Finnish or Swedish in Finland, and Lithuanian, Polish or Russian in Lithuania)—has also been the subject of investigation. However, since we found that these attitudes have not been surveyed either by indirect methods only or by a combination of direct and indirect methods, we were able to obtain funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the years 2014–2016 to conduct a survey to correct this diagnosed deficiency. We want to thank the German Research Foundation for the trust placed in our project. Our survey investigated the social status de facto, which language speakers in Finland and Lithuania assess as most prestigious. Both countries have similarities in that their inhabitants are highly respectful of their languages and aim for politically correct behaviour according to language policy. Therefore, in addition to language status, statements made about the everyday life of the state’s language policies were also collected from the subjects of the survey. Judgments, from within each society, about the social effects of these linguistic/political measures are, to some extent, entirely different from official lines. The wide-ranging survey intends to give the opportunity to compare both countries using parallelism of the statistical data collected
The Social Status of Languages in Finland and Lithuania
No full textFinland and Lithuania stand for different ways of dealing with societal multilingualism and minority issues. However, in recent years, questions of language policy had been discussed more controversially in both countries. Thus our detailed surveys on Finland and Lithuania focused on how different population groups think about the lingual situation there. This publication presents the researchers’ results from between 2014 and 2016 regarding the attitudes towards the minority and majority languages. Key to the research was an especially developed methodological mixture, including the matched-guise technique. The surveys’ final reports to the German Research Foundation (DFG) are followed by contributions that give more details on the legal status of the languages in Finland and Lithuania or describe the specific features of urban multilingualism there
Datiivigenetiivi – ikivanhaa perintöä vai vanhan suomen nuori uudennos?
Get PDFArvioitu teos:Nobufumi Inaba: Suomen datiivigenetiivin juuret vertailevan menetelmän valossa. Suomalais-Ugrilaisen Seuran Toimituksia 272. Helsinki 2015. 351 s. ja liitteet 62 s. ISBN 978-952-5667-71-4
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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