Force dynamics, fictive dynamicity, and the Finnish verbs of ‘remaining’
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Tuomas Huumo
Abstract
This article examines the semantic factors motivating the use of directional (‘to’) local cases in the morphological marking of the locative argument of the verb jäädä ‘remain’ in Finnish. It is argued that this use of the directional cases is motivated by the dynamic conceptualization of an apparently static situation. In this dynamic conceptualization, the actual course of events where the entity remains in a location is contrasted with a projected course of events whereby the entity leaves the location. The event of ‘remaining’ thus constitutes a change from the projected course of events into the actual one, and it is this dynamic meaning that motivates the directional case marking. The paper also addresses the more theoretical question of whether conceptualization can motivate the use of grammatical markers with other Finnish verbs.
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- Accessibility Theory applied to French: The case of il and celui-ci
- Hesitation phenomena in the language production of bilingual speakers: The role of working memory
- Force dynamics, fictive dynamicity, and the Finnish verbs of ‘remaining’
- Defining grammatical constructions as a linguistic sign: The case of periphrastic progressives in the Germanic languages
- The syntax of English comitative constructions
- Book Reviews
- Report on the 39th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Bremen, 30 August – 2 September 2006)
- Acknowledgements
- 40th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea 29 August–1 September 2007
- Publications Received
