Yhteisöt kontaktissa, systeemit muutoksessa:vepsän kielen indefiniittipronominien järjestelmä

• Main Author: Karjalainen, H. (Heini)
• Other Authors: Mantila, H. (Harri), Grünthal, R. (Riho), Sulkala, H. (Helena)
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: Finnish
• Published: Oulun yliopisto 2016
• Subjects: Indefinite pronouns; Interference (Linguistics); Languages in contact; Morphology; Multilingualism; Semantics; Syntax; Typology (Linguistics); Veps language; indefiniittipronominit; interferenssi; kielikontaktit; kielitypologia; lauseoppi; monikielisyys; muoto-oppi; semantiikka; vepsän kieli; indefinitižed pronominad; interferencii; kel’kontaktad; morfologii; semantik; sintaksis; tipologižuz’oppind; vepsän kel’; äikeližuz’; Oppi; veps language; Vepsän kieli
• Online Access: http://urn.fi/urn:isbn:9789526212234

Abstract This thesis discusses the Veps indefinite pronoun system and its development. I show how the long lasting contact effect of Russian can be perceived in the Veps indefinite pronoun system. The approach I have adopted in this study combines insights from multilingualism and linguistic typology. The study is concerned mainly with the synchronic level of the language, but I have also examined the diachrony of the system. The data of this study consist of both sociolinguistic and language data, quantitative and qualitative data, old and new data, and data representing both written as well as spoken registers. The study consists of four separate publications. The first of them is a collaborative publication, Veps in Russia: ELDIA Case-Specific Report. The publication has a sociolinguistic viewpoint: it enlightens the linguistic situation of the Vepsians. In the article The Implicational Semantic Map for Veps Indefinite Pronouns, I describe the Veps indefinite pronouns by means of the semantic map methodology. I show that, despite the numerous similarities between the Russian and Veps pronominal series, the Veps indefinite pronouns actually constitute a distinctive system. In the article Borrowing Morphology: The Influence of Russian on the Veps System of Indefinite Pronouns, I classify the Veps indefiniteness markers as MAT (morpheme transfer) loans or PAT (morphological pattern transfer) loans, according to the manner in which they have been acquired from Russian. I show that the Veps indefinite pronominal system has undergone obvious contact-induced morphological changes. In the article Vepsän kielen paljaiden interrogatiivien indefiniittinen käyttö, I show that in addition to the interrogative-derived indefinite pronouns the use of bare interrogatives as indefinites is common in Veps. I have divided this use into nine different clause and phrase structures. In the study, I show that the diachronically unstable system of indefinite pronouns has undergone many changes in Veps, due to language contact with ...