Partitiivi laienemine aspektituks objektikaandeks

• Authors: Hint Mati

Title variants

EN

EXPANSION OF PARTITIVE CASE IN THE ESTONIAN LANGUAGE INTO A COUNTERPART OF INDO-EUROPEAN ACCUSATIVE

• Languages of publication: ET

Abstracts

EN

The language-specific rules for expressing grammatical aspect in Estonian by the use of case forms of grammatical object were first described by Eduard Ahrens (1803–1863) in his “Grammatik der Ehstnischen Sprache Revalschen Dialektes” (1853). In the Estonian language the perfective aspect is expressed by the nominative and genitive cases of the object, and imperfective aspect by the partitive case of the object. During the last 150 years since Ahrens’s grammar, and later a grammar by Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann (“Grammatik der Ehstnischen Sprache ...”, 1875) the rules covering the usage of these cases for expressing aspect have been elaborated into a detailed syntactic theory. Nowadays, however, the situation is gradually changing: under the influence of Indo-European languages the partitive case seems to occupy more and more the role of Indo-European accusative as a common case for grammatical object, leaving aside and neutralizing the expression of aspect.

Keywords

EN

expansion of partitive as a common case for object; expressing the aspect in Estonian; language change; the rules covering the usage of object in Estonian; typology of morphosyntax

• Publisher: Folk Belief and Media Group of the Estonian Literary Museum, Estonian Institute of Folklore, EKM Teaduskirjastus
• Journal: Mäetagused
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 69
• Pages: 153-180

Contributors

author

Hint Mati

• Tallinn University, Narva road 25, Tallinn 10152, ESTONIA