[Lingtyp] finiteness

[Östen Dahl]

Dear Nigel, Christian and all,

I assume that Christian is referring to one or both of two papers of mine from the 1970’s: “On Sloppy Identity<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dBLUKpvo8CC0o14LMCUDubqz5ex2o1jJ/view?usp=sharing>” and “How to open a sentence: Abstraction in natural language<https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TlK3XXtkbBLtXHwUudlLqFA0SGUbftEk/view?usp=sharing>”.  P     lease tell me if there are any problems with the links.

Best,
Östen



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Skickat: den 5 maj 2025 10:47
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Ämne: Re: [Lingtyp] finiteness

Dear Nigel,

allow me to remind you of two concepts which, to my mind, have proved fruitful both in the descriptive analysis and the typology of non-finite constructions:

  1.  the open proposition/clause
  2.  the oriented proposition/clause.
The webpage
https://www.christianlehmann.eu/ling/lg_system/func_domains/nexion/nexion_index.php?open=open_proposition
is on #1 and takes you to #2.

Unless I am mistaken, concept #1 was introduced into linguistics by Östen Dahl. Both concepts have been used, i.a., by Nikolaus Himmelmann in his analysis of the Philippine voice system (http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/files/24331/AP15NF-Himmelmann(1991).pdf).

Best,
Christian
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