Schedule 75. StuTS

Aspect is not a fully grammaticalized category in Livonian. However, two different grammatical means of expressing aspect/aspectuality can be observed: differential object marking (which is common among Finnic languages) and verbal prefixation by means of borrowed Latvian prefixes (due to contact influence).
The study starts from the prefixed verbs: what kind of inner aspectual values they express compared with their non-prefixed counterparts, how the possible object cases (genitive and partitive) are combined with the prefixed verbs, and what kind of aspectual values can be observed in these combinations.
While in most of the Finnic languages partitive of negation is obligatory, Livonian differs from that in the point that genitive also occurs in negated clauses. As there is yet no consense, whether it is a mere formal contact-induced phenomenon or semantical issues play a role as well, negated clauses will be analyzed against the background of aspectual matters, too.
The study aims to describe the relations between differential object marking and prefixation: Do they only occur redundantly next to each other or could they have developed their own functions?

Livonian belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic language family and is an indigenous language in Latvia. Being in the process of revitalization it is now spoken by approximately 200 speakers, mostly researchers, at different levels.

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Day: 2024-05-11
Start time: 16:00
Duration: 00:30
Room: Seashell (33.4.032)
Track: Typology and Variational Linguistics
Language: en

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