Lähivõrdlusi (Oct 2011)
Millest räägivad eesti õppijakeele käändeasendused?
Abstract
The article expounds on some trends witnessed in the use of object cases in Estonian. It is a synchronous research basing on Estonian learner language and standard language corpus-driven and corpus-based comparative language usage analysis. The corpus-driven analysis provides evidence to phenomena, endemic to a given language usage variant, followed up by corpus-based analysis. The point of reference is the concept, according to which the learner language use reflects the processes inherent to development of the standard language, manifested among others also by changes of object cases and alternating grammatical cases. Those processes would not reveal themselves, if the language system should lack the respective readiness. The comparative corpus-driven analysis of different language usage variants highlights the phenomena deriving from language transfer on the one hand, and from the Finno-Ugric substance of Estonian on the other hand, which the contrastive and error analysis incidental to word or category fails to bring to the fore.
