ESTONIAN ACADEMY
PUBLISHERS
eesti teaduste
akadeemia kirjastus
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SINCE 1965
 
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Linguistica Uralica
ISSN 1736-7506 (Electronic)
ISSN 0868-4731 (Print)
Research article
The Livonian Jussive: A Corpus Analysis; pp. 1–24
PDF | https://dx.doi.org/10.3176/lu.2023.1.01

Author
Milda Dailidėnaitė
Abstract

Livonian like other Finnic languages has a complex morphological system. Unlike, e.g., Finnish and Estonian, Livonian has not been systematically ­standardised and thus exhibits vast variability in usage. This article discusses the results of a morphosyntactic corpus analysis of the Livonian jussive mood. The article presents previous research on the Livonian jussive, formal aspects of jussive occurrences in the corpus, and an analysis of arguments of the jussive predicates. Jussive object marking is given more attention due to the ambiguity of case marking in Livonian, namely, nominative and genitive (sometimes even partitive) forms frequently ­coincide. A possible interpretation of the ambiguous cases is suggested based on their usage and restrictions.

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