Functional Study on Adverbial Cases and Adpositions in Finno-Ugric and Indo-European

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Finno-Ugric languages are renowned for possessing a rich morphological case system. Finnish has 15 basic cases and Hungarian has 18. These large number of cases can be classified into three types; grammatical, locative,and adverbial. Grammatical cases are related to syntax, but locative and adverbial cases are regarded as adjuncts, and such adjuncts have rarely been the focus of morphosyntactic studies. Among Indo-European languages, German has just four cases and English has only few of them; instead, they have many prepositions, and such prepositions act as adjuncts. This paper deals with several adverbial cases in Finno-Ugric: essive, causal (causative), and translative cases, and contrasts them with the equivalent expressions (mainly prepositional forms) of German and English.This paper has examined several forms (cases, adpositions, and conjunctions) for some adverbial meanings among four languages: English, Finnish,German, and Hungarian. There are clear morphological differences and common features between Finno-Ugric and Indo-European.
麗澤大学経済学会の論文
2008-00-00