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The variability of multi-word verbal expressions in Estonian

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Abstract

This article focuses on the variability of one of the subtypes of multi-word expressions, namely those consisting of a verb and a particle or a verb and its complement(s). We build on evidence from Estonian, an agglutinative language with free word order, analysing the behaviour of verbal multi-word expressions (opaque and transparent idioms, support verb constructions and particle verbs). Using this data we analyse such phenomena as the order of the components of a multi-word expression, lexical substitution and morphosyntactic flexibility.

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Abbreviations

ADE:

Adessive case

ALL:

Allative case

COND:

Conditional

GEN:

Genitive case

ELA:

Elative case

ILL:

Illative case

IPS:

Impersonal

NOM:

Nominative case

PART:

Partitive case

PL:

Plural

PST:

Past

PTCP:

Participle

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This work has been supported by the grant SF0180078s08 from Estonian Ministry of Education and Research.

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Muischnek, K., Kaalep, HJ. The variability of multi-word verbal expressions in Estonian. Lang Resources & Evaluation 44, 115–135 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10579-009-9096-x

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