On the distribution and history of Saami verbal derivatives in -š-

• Published in: Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
• Main Authors: Juha Kuokkala, Eino Koponen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Estonian
• Published: University of Tartu Press 2023
• Subjects: Saami languages; derivation; verbal derivation; denominal verbs; historical morphology; loanwords; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Finnic. Baltic-Finnic; PH91-98.5; Selle; saami
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2023.14.3.03; https://doaj.org/article/37235763b43341bda784d648bdf18a74

The article presents a comparative-historical survey on Saami verbal derivatives with a suffixal *-š- (or *-šš-), based on extensive dictionary data from all Saami languages. The derivatives are divided into several subtypes using structural and functional criteria, and the distribution of each subt...