Case and Adverbials in Inari Saami and Finnish

This paper explores the relationship between case-marked adverbials and event structure in two related languages, Inari Saami and Finnish. New data is presented to show that while oblique case-marked adverbials do not delimit events in either language, the two languages diverge with respect to accus...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nordlyd
Main Author: Diane Nelson
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Norwegian
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2004
Subjects:
Inari Saami Language
Finnish Language
Case
Event Delimitation
Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar
P101-410
Inari
saami
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.7557/12.34
https://doaj.org/article/ed846455809e4703a268470f3a218c0c
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Summary:This paper explores the relationship between case-marked adverbials and event structure in two related languages, Inari Saami and Finnish. New data is presented to show that while oblique case-marked adverbials do not delimit events in either language, the two languages diverge with respect to accusuative adverbials. Finnish shows a one-to-one mapping between case and event delimitation, while in Inari Saami not all accusative adverbials delimit events. These findings lend support to proposals by Arad (1998) and Tenny (1987) that each predicate may contain only one event delimiter.

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