An infinitive by any other name: On the non-finites in Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian grammars
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Subject = P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom: PH Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literatures / finnugor és baszk nyelvek és irodalom: PH02 Estonian language and literature / észt nyelv és irodalom
Subject = P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom: PH Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literatures / finnugor és baszk nyelvek és irodalom: PH01 Finnish language and literature / finn nyelv és irodalom
Type = Article
Cím:
An infinitive by any other name: On the non-finites in Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian grammars
Létrehozó:
Laakso, Johanna
Kiadó:
Akadémiai Kiadó
Dátum:
2023
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Téma:
PH01 Finnish language and literature / finn nyelv és irodalom
PH02 Estonian language and literature / észt nyelv és irodalom
Tartalmi leírás:
Non-finite verb forms, in-between verbs and nouns and also in-between inflection and derivation, pose challenges to grammar writing. In the largely Latin-based European grammar traditions, three or four main types of non-finites are often distinguished: infinitives, participles, verbal adverbs (gerunds, converbs), and – often most closely connected to the participles but classified as derivation rather than inflection – deverbal noun derivatives. Hungarian, Finnish, and Estonian, the three Uralic state languages with a strong tradition of written cultivation, are situated at the western end of the language family and display a strong “Europeanization” also in their systems of non-finites. Yet, these systems differ greatly even from each other. In this paper, the classification and nomenclature of non-finites in Hungarian grammars are compared with Finnish and Estonian. The Finnish grammar tradition is based on morphological substance but, failing to acknowledge the category of converbs, ends up exploiting the term “infinitive” in a way which is syntactically and semantically meaningless. The Estonian grammars vacillate between an opportunistic use of traditional European grammar terms and a simple listing of forms at a minimal level of abstraction. Hungarian grammars, in turn, present the non-finites in a way which is incompatible with other grammar traditions and is internally contradictory.
Nyelv:
angol
Típus:
Article
PeerReviewed
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Formátum:
text
Azonosító:
Laakso, Johanna (2023) An infinitive by any other name: On the non-finites in Hungarian, Finnish and Estonian grammars. HUNGARIAN STUDIES: A JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUNGARIAN STUDIES AND BALASSI INSTITUTE, 37 (1). pp. 107-122. ISSN 0236-6568
Kapcsolat:
MTMT:34060528 10.1556/044.2022.00168
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