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Permission and obligation intertwined: The twofold modal meaning of the Finnish jussive from a discourse perspective

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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 21. Juni 2016

Abstract

This article examines the representation of semantic vagueness in discourse as well as the connection between deontic modal meaning and third person reference through the semantics and uses of the Finnish jussive mood. The data used in the analysis come from a collection of newspaper texts and a corpus of dialectal speech. Analyzing jussive forms that give rise to various modal readings, I argue that the two poles of the deontic axis, permission and obligation, are simultaneously present, albeit highlighted to different extents, in the interpretation of a jussive clause. This binary nature of the jussive semantics reveals itself to be a discursive resource: it allows the position of the speaker and other intentional agents to be taken into account in regard to the event that is potentially taking place, thus presenting more than one point of view in the situation. The jussive mood can therefore be regarded as contributing to the dialogical dimension of language.

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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Appendix 1: Data sources

FTC – Finnish Language Text Collection – Suomen kielen tekstikokoelma. Electronic collection of written Finnish gathered by the Research Institute for the Languages in Finland, the Department of General Linguistics of the University of Helsinki and the Foreign Languages Department of the University of Joensuu. http://www.csc.fi (accessed 3 June 2016).

SA – Syntaxe Archives – Lauseopin X-arkisto. Research Institute for the Languages of Finland and School of Languages and Translation Studies, University of Turku. http://syntaxarchives.suo.utu.fi (accessed 3 June 2016).

Appendix 2: Abbreviations

abe

abessive

ade

adessive

all

allative

aux

auxiliary

clt

clitic

comp

complementizer

cond

conditional

dem

demonstrative

ela

elative

gen

genitive

ill

illative

imp

imperative

indef

indefinite

ind

indicative

ine

inessive

inf

infinitive

ipf

imperfect

juss

jussive

neg

negation

nom

nominative

opt

optative

part

partitive

pass

passive

pl

plural

poss

possessive

pot

potential

prop

proper noun

pst

past

ptcl

particle

ptcp

participle

q

question marker

rel

relative

sg

singular

transl

translative

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