Inchoative Emotion Verbs in Finnish : Argument Structures and Collexemes

Inchoative Emotion Verbs in Finnish : Argument Structures and Collexemes

Maximilian Murmann

Språken
FörlagNarr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN9783823392996

The volume investigates the syntagmatic relations of certain Finnish emotion verbs that are formed by the derivational suffix -ua/-yä (e.g. suuttua get angry, pelästyä get frightened). Prototypically, the suffix expresses reflexivity, but in the case of the inchoative emotion verbs, it indicates a c