Replication data for: Possessive constructions in North Saami prosedoi:10.18710/SE00DSDataverseNO2015-11-252Antonsen, Lene; Janda, Laura A., 2015, "Replication data for: Possessive constructions in North Saami prose", https://doi.org/10.18710/SE00DS, DataverseNO, V2Replication data for: Possessive constructions in North Saami prosedoi:10.18710/SE00DSAntonsen, LeneJanda, Laura A.UiT The Arctic University of Norway2015DataverseNOThe Tromsø Repository of Language and Linguistics (TROLLing)Janda, Laura A.2015-11-202015Arts and Humanitiespossessive constructionspossessive suffixessyntaxNorth Saamilanguage changeField: MorphologyTime-depth: diachronicTopic: affixesWe present an analysis of nearly 4K examples of possessive constructions extracted from nearly 0.7M words of North Saami prose representing works of authors born in three time periods (1870-1927, 1947-1957, 1972-1983), plus a recent (1998) translation of the New Testament. The examples document an ongoing language change in which the possessive suffix attached to a noun (“SOG”) is being replaced by the genitive reflexive pronoun preceding the noun (“ieža-”). All examples are hand tagged for the two constructions, SOG vs. ieža-, plus a host of variables including the case and semantic class of the possessum and possessor, the person and number of the possessor, the source of the example, and the generation and geographical location of the author. In addition to anaphoric, endophoric, and exophoric reference previously described, we discover a generic type of reference. We track the progress of the language change across generations and find Johan Turi exceptional because he used ieža- more than his contemporaries. We focus particularly on examples of double marking of possession, and on examples where the number of the possessive construction does not match the possessor, and on the case and semantic class of possessor and possessum. It appears that semantics play a greater role in the choice of possessive constructions for the middle and young
er generations than for the older generation. We hypothesize that the greater morphological complexity of the SOG construction is a language-internal factor that has contributed to its decline.NorwaySwedenFinlandcorpusAntonsen, Lene and Laura Janda. Oamastanráhkadusat davvisámi girjjálašvuođas. Symposia ávvučála. Nostalgiija, naga ja eará gielalaš ja kultuvrralaš fenomenat. – Vuokko Hirvonen & Johanna Johansen Ijäs & Marjatta Jomppanen & Kaarina Vuolab-Lohi (doaimm.), Dieđut 2/2015, 9-43. Guovdageaidnu: Sámi allaskuvlahttp://giellatekno.uit.no/research/oamasteapmi.htmlAntonsen, Lene and Laura Janda. Oamastanráhkadusat davvisámi girjjálašvuođas. Symposia ávvučála. Nostalgiija, naga ja eará gielalaš ja kultuvrralaš fenomenat. – Vuokko Hirvonen & Johanna Johansen Ijäs & Marjatta Jomppanen & Kaarina Vuolab-Lohi (doaimm.), Dieđut 2/2015, 9-43. Guovdageaidnu: Sámi allaskuvlaChi-squareDiedut.txtThis file shows the R commands for the chi-square calculations for Table 4 and their outcomestext/plain; charset=UTF-8Code.txtThis is the R code for the CART analysistext/plain; charset=UTF-8inputcart.txtThis is the input data for the R script for the CART analysis.text/plaininputcart.xlsxThis is an xl version of the csv input data for the CART analysis in R.application/octet-streamSentencesWithAnnotation.xmlThis file contains all the sentences in our database, with the annotation as described in the separate file.text/plain; charset=US-ASCIITheTagsInInputcart.txtThis file explains all the annotation: the categories and all the values.text/plain; charset=UTF-8