Force dynamics, fictive dynamicity, and the Finnish verbs of ‘remaining’

Tuomas Huumo

doi:10.1515/flin.41.1-2.73

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Force dynamics, fictive dynamicity, and the Finnish verbs of ‘remaining’

Tuomas Huumo

Published/Copyright: August 24, 2007

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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.

Keywords: fictive dynamicity; directional local cases; force dynamics; static verbs

*University of Tartu, Department of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, Ülikooli 18, 51014 Tartu, Estonia

Received: 2006-09-06

Revised: 2006-11-21

Accepted: 2007-01-16

Published Online: 2007-08-24

Published in Print: 2007-06-19

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Keywords for this article

fictive dynamicity; directional local cases; force dynamics; static verbs