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Contact-induced change in the languages of Europe: The rise and development of partitive cases and determiners in Finnic and Basque
No full textThis paper explores the hypothesis of contact-induced change for the
rise of the partitive case in Finnic languages and of the partitive case/determiner
in Basque. On the basis of the well-established Indo-European partitive-genitive
case and taking into account the lack of such a basis on the Uralic side, we
argue that the partitive case in Finnic languages has arisen as a result of BaltoSlavic influence. Concerning the Basque partitive determiner, we likewise suggest a contact scenario (with Romance languages) as being responsible for the
development of an entire system of determiners, including the definite and
possibly the indefinite article as well as the partitive marker, which originates
in an old ablative ending but crucially lacks the morphological properties
characteristic of Basque inflectional markers
Monipuolinen esitys (lähes) tuntemattomasta maanlainsuomennoksesta
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Harri Uusitalo: Tausta, tekijä ja kieli. Filologinen tutkimus Aitolahden koodeksin lainsuomennoksesta. Turun yliopiston julkaisuja C471. Turku 2019. 159 s. ja liitteet 186 s. isbn 978-951-29-7668-3. Saatavilla verkossa osoitteessa http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-7669-
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
Fluid intransitivity in Old Finnish
Get PDFFluid intransitivity designates the phenomenon that the intransitive subject (S) may be marked like a transitive subject (A) or an object (O) depending on the syntactic construction where it occurs. In Finnish, the S of existential and possessive clauses is marked like O in terms of case-marking and agreement.
This paper examines fluid intransitivity in Old Finnish through a corpus of intransitive clauses with indefinite subjects from Agricola's New Testament and the NT portion of the 1642 Biblia. I will examine various factor groups that may influence the variation found between A-like and O-like subjects in these clauses, such as polarity, quantity, clause type and others. I will then examine the relative strength of these factor groups by a multivariate analysis.
Results are that polarity is a stronger factor than quantity, and that possessive clauses exhibit O-like subjects to a greater degree than other clauses. Possible explanations for these results will be discussed
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