Volume | Slavica Helsingiensia 3 |
Author | Marja Leinonen |
Title | Impersonal Sentences in Finnish and Russian: Syntactic and Semantic Properties |
Description | The study describes the semantics of sentences that are called impersonal in Russian and Finnish. The starting point is syntactic non-congruence, which leads to a classification of sentence models with distinct syntactic-semantic structures. These are found to be nearly identical in the two languages. The motivations for the impersonal/non-congruent sentence models are established and tentatively connected with typological phenomena, syntactic subject prominence and word order. |
Reviewed in | The Slavonic and East European Review, 64, 3/1986; Zeitschrift für Slawistik, 32, 1987; Revue des Etudes Slaves, LIX, 1987. |
ISBN | 951-45-3526-X |
Pages | 126 |
Published | Helsinki 1985 |
Availability | A bound xerocopy available |
Price | EUR 12,00 |