Similarity, equality and the like in North Saami
Abstract The paper discusses various linguistic expressions of similarity, equality and related meanings in North Saami, the major language of the westernmost branch of the Uralic language family. In addition to function-based synchronic description of similatives, equatives and functives (role phra...
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ftunivoulu:oai:oulu.fi:nbnfi-fe201801041077 2023-07-30T04:06:34+02:00 Similarity, equality and the like in North Saami Ylikoski, J. (Jussi) 2017 application/pdf http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe201801041077 eng eng John Benjamins Publishing Company info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/pissn/0167-7373 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess © John Benjamins. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use the material in any form. Published in this repository with the kind permission of the publisher. North Saami Uralic equatives purposives similatives info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/submittedVersion 2017 ftunivoulu 2023-07-08T19:59:56Z Abstract The paper discusses various linguistic expressions of similarity, equality and related meanings in North Saami, the major language of the westernmost branch of the Uralic language family. In addition to function-based synchronic description of similatives, equatives and functives (role phrases), the paper also discusses certain on-going language changes due to both external influences and language-internal development. Special attention is given to the use of the postpositionláhkai‘like; in the manner of’ and its development to a marker of a non-finite verb form in -nláhkaiexpressing not only similarity, but also purpose and at times even future events. As regards other parts of speech, it is proposed that a limited set of North Saami adjectives that refer to measurable physical properties such as size, weight, depth and strength have specialized equative forms on a par with the positive, comparative and superlative degrees. The analysis of similarity at phrase and clause levels is further extended to the derivational suffix ‑láganthat is used to turn both nouns and adjectives into ‘-like’ or ‘-ish’ adjectives and ultimately into semantically analogous ‘kind of’ or ‘-oid’ nouns. Article in Journal/Newspaper saami Jultika - University of Oulu repository |
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Abstract The paper discusses various linguistic expressions of similarity, equality and related meanings in North Saami, the major language of the westernmost branch of the Uralic language family. In addition to function-based synchronic description of similatives, equatives and functives (role phrases), the paper also discusses certain on-going language changes due to both external influences and language-internal development. Special attention is given to the use of the postpositionláhkai‘like; in the manner of’ and its development to a marker of a non-finite verb form in -nláhkaiexpressing not only similarity, but also purpose and at times even future events. As regards other parts of speech, it is proposed that a limited set of North Saami adjectives that refer to measurable physical properties such as size, weight, depth and strength have specialized equative forms on a par with the positive, comparative and superlative degrees. The analysis of similarity at phrase and clause levels is further extended to the derivational suffix ‑láganthat is used to turn both nouns and adjectives into ‘-like’ or ‘-ish’ adjectives and ultimately into semantically analogous ‘kind of’ or ‘-oid’ nouns. |
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