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The Finnish existential clause: Aspect, case marking and quantification of the S argument




TekijätHuumo Tuomas

ToimittajaSarda Laure, Lena Ludovica

Julkaisuvuosi2023

Kokoomateoksen nimiExistential Constructions across Languages

Sarjan nimiHuman cognitive processing

Numero sarjassa76

Aloitussivu220

Lopetussivu245

ISBN978-90-272-1367-9

eISBN978-90-272-5288-3

DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.76.07huu

Verkko-osoitehttps://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.76.07huu


Tiivistelmä

I analyze the case marking (nominative vs. partitive) and quantification of the Finnish existential S argument (Se). I focus on Se arguments quantified by mass quantifiers (e.g. paljon ‘much’) and number quantifiers (e.g. usea ‘many’). I discuss grammatical, semantic and discourse functions of the Se argument, with an emphasis on the aspectual and quantificational meanings expressed by the construction. I argue that a quantified Se designates a bounded quantity even when marked with the partitive case, which otherwise expresses unbounded quantity. This has important repercussions to the clause-level aspectual meaning of the existential construction, especially in uses where the aspectual profile of the clause is based on nominal aspect and thus on the quantity expressed by the Se



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