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Resultative passives in Finnish

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Author

Editor

  • Johan Brandtler
  • Valeria Molnar
  • Christer Platzack

Summary, in English

In this article, I argue that Finnish passive participle (e.g. avattu 'opened' and suljettu 'closed') can be multiply ambiguous: the "same" morphophonological forms exhibit different patterns of eventivity and agentivity, and are used to form "traditional" non-agreeing passives, agreeing resultative passives and agreeing sentences that describe "pure" states and behave in most contexts like "traditional" copula-adjective constructions. I show that in Finnish, Participle Phrases that look similar on the outside can be formed in different ways, and that these Participle Phrases are selected by different superordinate heads, to form either a non-agreeing passive, an agreing resultative, or a "pure" stative sentence.

Department/s

Publishing year

2013

Language

Finnish

Publication/Series

Approaches to Hungarian: Papers from the 2011 Lund Conference

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

John Benjamins Publishing Company

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • passives
  • Finnish

Status

Published

Project

  • When agents disappear: on the morpho-syntax, semantics and informational value of passive, middle and active impersonal constructions