Pertti Hietaranta

List of John Benjamins publications in which Pertti Hietaranta is involved.

Articles

Hietaranta, Pertti 2018 Anglicising Finnish complementation? Examining the rakastan puhua (‘I love to speak’) structure in present-day Finnish Changing Structures: Studies in constructions and complementation, Kaunisto, Mark, Mikko Höglund and Paul Rickman (eds.), pp. 215–232 | Chapter

The paper addresses the question as to whether the complementation system of Finnish is currently undergoing a change which will ultimately lead to Finnish syntax recognising rakastan puhua (‘I love to talk/speak’) as a valid instantiation of the syntactic structure in question in addition to the… read more

Hietaranta, Pertti 2000 Thwarted Expectations: Investigating Translational Mishaps with Reference to Cultural Disparities Target 12:1, pp. 83–107 | Article

While there are many types of purely linguistic differences between languages which students of translation can be explicitly taught to recognise during their formal training, it is a far bigger task to try to make future translators detect and appropriately cater to relevant cultural differences… read more