@article{Paulsen_2012, place={Tartu, Estonia}, title={Static and dynamic states: the case of Estonian stative colour expressions}, volume={3}, url={https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2012.3.1.01}, DOI={10.12697/jeful.2012.3.1.01}, abstractNote={<p><span style="left: 208.976px; top: 249.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.963173);">The aim of this study is to account for stative situations </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 269.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.977081);">through the example of structurally different but semantically close </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 289.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.993927);">colour expressions: the Estonian stative verbs derived from colour </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 309.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00239);">adjectives and colour adjectives appearing as the predicative. Sta</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 329.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.988308);">tive verbs are assumed to be similar to copula constructions, with </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 349.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.0134);">the aspectual distinction of temporary/permanent property. In this </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 369.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01758);">article, the stative colour expressions are analysed using the linguistic </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 389.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02835);">diagnostics developed for the determination of ontological properties </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 409.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.959068);">of different types of states – the sc. Davidsonian and Kimian states </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 429.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02321);">(see e.g. Maienborn 2003). Analysis reveals that the copula construc</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 449.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.978139);">tion with colour adjective as predicative is ambiguous, inclining to </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 469.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.976282);">the Kimian states but also assigning properties characteristic to the </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 489.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01067);">Davidsonian states; the stative colour verbs, in turn, are true examples </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 509.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.972507);">of Davidsonian states. In addition to the examination of the stative </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 529.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.02051);">properties, the conceptual structure analysis of the colour expressions </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 549.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.03245);">instantiating stative and dynamic states is given. The observer’s eva</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 569.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.930713);">luation of the coloured object as a mental image is treated as part of </span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 589.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00728);">the lexical information of the colour statives. Also, sentential and con</span><span style="left: 141.732px; top: 609.181px; font-size: 16.6667px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01183);">textual phenomena of the colour statives are discussed. </span></p>}, number={1}, journal={Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics}, author={Paulsen, Geda}, year={2012}, month={Dec.}, pages={9–46} }