Jari Sivonen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jari Sivonen is involved.

Article

Sivonen, Jari 2016 The Finnish abstract motion construction mennä V- mA-An [go V-inf-ill] ‘do something unwished’: Usage, development and motivation Review of Cognitive Linguistics 14:2, pp. 247–274 | Article

This paper addresses the usage, development and motivation of the Finnish mennä V-mA-An [go V-inf-ill] construction. In this construction, the literal motion sense of ‘going’ has been grammaticalized to evoke an affective meaning: the activity expressed in the construction’s infinitival element… read more