Jane Klavan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Jane Klavan is involved.

Articles

Klavan, Jane 2014 A multifactorial corpus analysis of grammatical synonymy: The Estonian adessive and adposition peal ‘on’ Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.), pp. 253–278 | Article

In the present study, both monofactorial and multifactorial corpus methods are applied to the alternative use of the analytic adpositional construction and the synthetic case construction in present-day written Estonian. 600 examples from the fiction sub-corpora of written Estonian were annotated… read more

Klavan, Jane, Kaisa Kesküla and Laura Ojava 2011 The division of labour between synonymous locative cases and adpositions: The Estonian adessive and the adposition peal ‘on’ Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi and Jussi Ylikoski (eds.), pp. 113–134 | Article

In Estonian the location of one object placed on top of another object may be expressed using either the adessive case construction or the adpositional construction with the postposition peal ‘on’. This paper addresses the question which semantic factors determine the use of these alternative… read more