Päivi Juvonen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Päivi Juvonen is involved.

Articles

Juvonen, Päivi and Ahti Nikunlassi 2015 Temperature adjectives in Finnish The Linguistics of Temperature, Koptjevskaja-Tamm, Maria (ed.), pp. 491–536 | Article

This paper provides a descriptive and theoretical account of Finnish temperature adjectives as a system consisting of a three-term core and a supplementary set. The former are unrestricted with respect to a number of grammatical and semantic parameters proposed in cross-linguistic and typological… read more

Juvonen, Päivi 2008 Complexity and simplicity in minimal lexica: The lexicon of Chinook Jargon Language Complexity: Typology, contact, change, Miestamo, Matti, Kaius Sinnemäki and Fred Karlsson (eds.), pp. 321–340 | Article

I examine the ways the minimal lexicon of a pidgin language, Chinook Jargon, gains maximal efficiency when put into use in a contemporary fictional text. The paper first describes the lexicon used from a structural point of view. It then examines the use of multifunctional lexical items in… read more