Object Cases, Definiteness, and Aspect in Finnish and Hungarian : How Hungarian Learners of Finnish Use the Partitive and Total Object Cases

Panka, Erzsébet (2023) Object Cases, Definiteness, and Aspect in Finnish and Hungarian : How Hungarian Learners of Finnish Use the Partitive and Total Object Cases. In: European Partitives in Comparison. Károli Könyvek. Tanulmánykötet . L'Harmattan Kiadó; Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, Budapest, pp. 79-104. ISBN 9782336472256; 9782336472263

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Abstract

According to the most recent and most complete Finnish descriptive grammar, Iso suomen kielioppi, the use of the Finnish object cases is governed by three main factors: (1) the polarity of the sentence (affirmative / negative); (2) the aspect of the sentence (bounded / unbounded or perfective / imperfective); and (3) the quantitative boundedness / unboundedness (quantification) of the object-NP. In my paper, I briefly compare how object cases, quantification, definiteness and aspect are expressed in Finnish and Hungarian. I show that there are some similarities but also several differences between the ways the two languages express these grammatical categories. I argue that these structural differences may affect Hungarian learners’ use of object cases in Finnish.

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