Case-Marking in Estonian Pseudopartitives

Norris, Mark

doi:10.20354/b4414110001

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“…Nevis (1984) argues that the -gi/ki in indefinite pronouns is fossilized, i.e., it is not the same element as the productive homophonous focus clitic. 39 Due to the irregular behavior of these cases, some authors (e.g., Nevis 1986;Norris 2015) have proposed that they should be treated as clitic postpositions rather than true case markers. I do not adopt a formal analysis here, as the analysis does not matter for our purposes.…”

Section: Estonian Indefinite Pronounsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Nominal structure in a language without articles: The case of Estonian

Norris

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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It is standardly assumed that nominals in the languages of the world are syntactically complex in the typical case, being made up of not just NP, but one or more functional projections, e.g., DP (Abney 1987). Recently, this assumption has been questioned, especially for languages without articles (Bošković 2005, et seq.). The alternative proposal holds that nominals in Serbo-Croatian (and more strongly, languages without articles in general) lack the DP projection, and that this difference has a variety of syntactic consequences. In this paper, I investigate the nominal extended projection of another language without articles, Estonian (Finno-Ugric). On the basis of a number of facts about Estonian's system of adnominal genitives, I conclude that nominals in Estonian should not be given the same analysis as those in Serbo-Croatian. I propose instead that Estonian's nominals are DPs. I then propose that indefinite pronouns and wh-determiners instantiate the category D 0 in the language, arguing that DP does more cross-linguistically than host articles. I conclude that nominal structure in languages without articles can be just as complex as nominal structure in languages with articles.

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Section: Estonian Indefinite Pronounsmentioning

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“…I do not address this debate herein, but seeDanon (2006);Pereltsvaig (2006) and references there for discussion.5 On the presence/absence of accusative case in Estonian, seeSaareste (1926);Hiietam (2005);Miljan (2008);Caha (2009); Norris (To Appear). On the differing properties of terminative, essive, abessive, and comitative, seeNevis (1986);Norris (2015).…”

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Nominal structure in a language without articles: The case of Estonian

Norris

2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Case-Marking in Estonian Pseudopartitives

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Nominal structure in a language without articles: The case of Estonian

Nominal structure in a language without articles: The case of Estonian

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