Tuomas Huumo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Tuomas Huumo is involved.

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Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical

Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Tuomas Huumo

This volume analyzes constructions with non-canonical subjects in individual languages and cross-linguistically, drawing on insights from cognitive and discourse-functional linguistics. Prototypical subjects have often been characterized in terms of their semantic, syntactic and discourse features,… read more

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 16] 2015. viii, 324 pp.

Teeri-Niknammoghadam, Krista and Tuomas Huumo 2026 Chapter 7. When Moving Ego meets Moving Time in Finnish Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 197–222 | Chapter

The Finnish construction tulla vastaan ‘come from the opposite direction’ combines the deictic motion verb tulla ‘come’ with the spatial gram vastaan ‘in the opposite direction’. The construction indicates a spatial or a temporal relation where Figure and Ground move toward each other. In the… read more

Huumo, Tuomas 2023 Chapter 7. The Finnish existential clause: Aspect, case marking and quantification of the S argument Existential Constructions across Languages: Forms, meanings and functions, Sarda, Laure and Ludovica Lena (eds.), pp. 220–244 | Chapter

I analyze the case marking (nominative vs. partitive) and quantification of the Finnish existential S argument (Se). I focus on Se arguments quantified by mass quantifiers (e.g. paljon ‘much’) and number quantifiers (e.g. usea ‘many’). I discuss grammatical, semantic and discourse functions of… read more

Huumo, Tuomas and Krista Teeri-Niknammoghadam 2022 Chapter 12. Moving reader or moving text? Contrasts and analogies between metaphors of time and text organization in Finnish Analogy and Contrast in Language: Perspectives from Cognitive Linguistics, Krawczak, Karolina, Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Marcin Grygiel (eds.), pp. 371–404 | Chapter

This chapter is concerned with metaphors of text organization that are instantiated by metaphorical expressions pertaining to metatextual relations, i.e. relations between different parts of a text or between a text and its reader (e.g. as noted in the foregoing chapters). The purpose of the… read more

Huumo, Tuomas 2018 Langacker, R. W. (2016). Nominal structure in Cognitive Grammar: The Lublin lectures  Issues in Humour Cognition, Dynel, Marta (ed.), pp. 305–310 | Review

Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Tuomas Huumo 2015 Canonical and non-canonical subjects in constructions: Perspectives from cognition and discourse Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Tuomas Huumo (eds.), pp. 1–9 | Article

Huumo, Tuomas and Marja-Liisa Helasvuo 2015 On the subject of subject in Finnish Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Tuomas Huumo (eds.), pp. 13–41 | Article

This article examines the category of subject in Finnish. Among the grammatical features examined are case marking, agreement and syntax, semantic role, its relation to other sentence elements and its semantic function as regards the sentence as a whole. One important discourse feature is whether… read more

Huumo, Tuomas and Jaakko Leino 2012 Discontinuous constituents or independent constructions? The case of the Finnish “split genitive” Constructions and Frames 4:1, pp. 56–75 | Article

In many formal theories of grammar, pairs of expressions such as the active and the passive are treated as variants of each other — the passive typically being a secondary construction derived from the active by operations that change the syntactic structure. Recent accounts based on Cognitive… read more

Huumo, Tuomas 2006 “I woke up from the sofa”: Subjective directionality in Finnish expressions of a spatio-cognitive transfer Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Lyle Campbell (eds.), pp. 41–65 | Article

Tuomas Huumo’s paper is a study on fictive motion as manifested by the uses of the Finnish directional (‘to’ vs. ‘from’) local cases in expressions that involve a cognitive change. The cognitive change takes place in the relationship between an experiencer and a stimulus, in such a way that the… read more

Huumo, Tuomas and Krista Ojutkangas 2006 An introduction to Finnish spatial relations: Local cases and adpositions Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Lyle Campbell (eds.), pp. 11–20 | Article

In their paper, Tuomas Huumo and Krista Ojutkangas first introduce the system of Finnish local cases in general and then discuss the main features of the system of adpositions. The Finnish system for expressing spatial relations consists of six local cases and many adpositions, the precise number… read more

Huumo, Tuomas 2001 Scalar Particles and the Sequential Space Construction Polysemy in Cognitive Linguistics: Selected papers from the International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, 1997, Cuyckens, Hubert and Britta E. Zawada (eds.), pp. 37–56 | Article