On the use of perfect and pluperfect in Estonian dialects: Frequency and language contacts
The present paper examines the use of two compound tenses – perfect and pluperfect – in Estonian. Perfect and pluperfect have emerged due to the influence of the Baltic and Germanic languages and are used frequently in Estonian. However, while looking at the usage frequency derived from the Corpus o...
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fttsvojs:oai:journal.fi:article/85035 2023-05-15T18:42:57+02:00 On the use of perfect and pluperfect in Estonian dialects: Frequency and language contacts Lindström, Liina Pilvik, Maarja-Liisa Ruutma, Mirjam Uiboaed, Kristel 2019-12-31 application/pdf https://journal.fi/uralicahelsingiensia/article/view/85035 https://doi.org/10.33341/uh.85035 eng eng Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura https://journal.fi/uralicahelsingiensia/article/view/85035/48355 https://journal.fi/uralicahelsingiensia/article/view/85035 doi:10.33341/uh.85035 Copyright (c) 2019 Uralica Helsingiensia Uralica Helsingiensia; Nro 14 (2019): Multilingual Finnic – Language contact and change; 155–193 Uralica Helsingiensia; Nr 14 (2019): Multilingual Finnic – Language contact and change; 155–193 Uralica Helsingiensia; No 14 (2019): Multilingual Finnic – Language contact and change; 155–193 1797-3945 compound tenses perfect pluperfect Estonian dialects frequency corpus-based dialectology language contacts info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2019 fttsvojs https://doi.org/10.33341/uh.85035 2020-05-29T23:12:36Z The present paper examines the use of two compound tenses – perfect and pluperfect – in Estonian. Perfect and pluperfect have emerged due to the influence of the Baltic and Germanic languages and are used frequently in Estonian. However, while looking at the usage frequency derived from the Corpus of Estonian Dialects, dialect areas display remarkable differences, which can be explained either by local language contacts with Swedish, Russian, Latvian, and Finnic languages (Votic, Ingrian, and Finnish) or by functional differences in the use of compound tenses. It appears that there are two main regions where the compound tenses are used more often compared to other areas: the Insular dialect and Mulgi dialect regions. The increase of compound tenses in the Insular dialect could be a result of contacts with Swedish. However, the Insular dialect also exhibits a high number of negated utterances using the perfect reflecting changes in the formation of negation more generally in this area. The Mulgi dialect shows a high number of pluperfect forms that can be related to the abundance of reported narratives in the data, but also as an increase of using pluperfect as an evidential strategy, which is probably a result of contacts with Latvian. Article in Journal/Newspaper votic Federation of Finnish Learned Societies: Scientific Journals Online Uralica Helsingiensia 14 |
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The present paper examines the use of two compound tenses – perfect and pluperfect – in Estonian. Perfect and pluperfect have emerged due to the influence of the Baltic and Germanic languages and are used frequently in Estonian. However, while looking at the usage frequency derived from the Corpus of Estonian Dialects, dialect areas display remarkable differences, which can be explained either by local language contacts with Swedish, Russian, Latvian, and Finnic languages (Votic, Ingrian, and Finnish) or by functional differences in the use of compound tenses. It appears that there are two main regions where the compound tenses are used more often compared to other areas: the Insular dialect and Mulgi dialect regions. The increase of compound tenses in the Insular dialect could be a result of contacts with Swedish. However, the Insular dialect also exhibits a high number of negated utterances using the perfect reflecting changes in the formation of negation more generally in this area. The Mulgi dialect shows a high number of pluperfect forms that can be related to the abundance of reported narratives in the data, but also as an increase of using pluperfect as an evidential strategy, which is probably a result of contacts with Latvian. |
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On the use of perfect and pluperfect in Estonian dialects: Frequency and language contacts |
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On the use of perfect and pluperfect in Estonian dialects: Frequency and language contacts |
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On the use of perfect and pluperfect in Estonian dialects: Frequency and language contacts |
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On the use of perfect and pluperfect in Estonian dialects: Frequency and language contacts |
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On the use of perfect and pluperfect in Estonian dialects: Frequency and language contacts |
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on the use of perfect and pluperfect in estonian dialects: frequency and language contacts |
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