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Kielipankki – The Language Bank of Finland is a service for researchers using language resources. Katja Västi, lecturer of Finnish Language at the University of Oulu, tells us about her research on the Finnish Text Collection.
I’m Katja Västi, lecturer of Finnish Language at the University of Oulu.
In my doctoral dissertation I discuss the semantic and syntactic properties of Finnish verbless expressions in the light of two examples, the SOURCE construction (e.g. Oikeusasiamieheltä huomautus, lit. ‘From the ombudsman a complaint’) and the GOAL construction (e.g. Pakistanille rangaistus lit. ‘For Pakistan a punishment’). These constructions express dynamic events in a way comparable to finite constructions. However, they are not elliptic structures but genuinely verbless constructions.
The main corpus data of my doctoral dissertation was the Finnish Text Collection, that can be found in Kielipankki.
The FIN-CLARIN consortium consists of a group of Finnish universities along with CSC – IT Center for Science and the Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus). FIN-CLARIN helps the researchers in Finland to use, to refine, to preserve and to share their language resources. The Language Bank of Finland is the collection of services that provides the language materials and tools for the research community.
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