Some like it transitive: Remarks on verbs of liking and the like in the Saami languages

Canonical DOM is rather uncommon in the Saami languages (Uralic), and the only clear instances of this are attested in South Saami where definiteness does determine the coding of objects in the plural. On the other hand, the coding of experiencer verbs (e.g., 'like', 'care' and &...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Seppo Kittilä
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Language Science Press 2018
Subjects:
Saami languages
Differential Object Marking
language contacts
case marking
experiencer verbs
saami
Online Access:https://zenodo.org/record/1228273
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1228273
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Summary:Canonical DOM is rather uncommon in the Saami languages (Uralic), and the only clear instances of this are attested in South Saami where definiteness does determine the coding of objects in the plural. On the other hand, the coding of experiencer verbs (e.g., 'like', 'care' and 'fear') displays variation in this regard across Saami languages. With the North Saami verb \textit{liikot

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