2023
DOI: 10.12697/jeful.2023.14.2.12
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<i>Täitsa lambist</i>: Evidence of ongoing case grammaticalisation from teenagers’ and adults’ spoken language

Mari Aigro,
Virve-Anneli Vihman

Abstract: Eleven out of fourteen Estonian nominal cases are generally regarded as semantic cases, rather than grammatical, but some are more grammaticalised (i.e. less semantic) than others. These can be said to be (semi-)grammatical cases, carrying both semantic and syntactic functions. This study focusses on elative and allative case, which stand out among semantic cases in terms of multifunctionality and a higher degree of grammaticalisation. We investigate whether we can find evidence that the grammaticalisation of … Show more

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