title: Some observations on distance measurement words in Finnish and Swedish
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Osmak, Natalia
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Bocharova, Yana
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2022-08-18T07:10:38Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2022-08-18T07:10:38Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022-06
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Osmak N., Bocharova Ya. Some observations on distance measurement words in Finnish and Swedish. Scandinavian Philology, 2022, vol. 20, issue 1, pp. 42–60.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu21.2022.104
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/37420
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper presents an overview of words denoting units of measurement in the
  Finnish and Swedish languages. Comparative studies between these two languages
  seem relevant because they have been used in the neighboring regions and countries
  with a long history of political, cultural, and people-to-people interaction. First, the
  study describes metalexemes of space and distance in Swedish and Finnish. Next, using
  thesauri, topical dictionaries and corpora, the study applies the combination of quantitative
  and qualitative approaches to identify and evaluate pragmatics and communication
  context for utterances of measure words. Then, the paper identifies several categories
  of measurement words in the languages, taking etymology into consideration, such
  as traditional measures, SI-units, foreign units and analyzes their use in the contexts of
  corpora representing modern discourse. The paper highlights the differences and similarities
  in how Swedish and Finnish use different categories of the vocabulary items.
  The detailed analysis of contexts provides observations about collocations and topics
  of news where these measure words occur. Moreover, the study addresses the impact
  of Swedish and Russian on Finnish, due to the historical and political circumstances.
  According to the data studied, the study infers that Finnish and Swedish use all types of
  measurement words. However, the frequency, contexts of the occurrences and speech
  situations differ. Some categories tend to be used in a limited amount of topics, while
  others have no restrictions in usage. The study is expected to contribute to practical
  dimensions of working with the languages, namely teaching and translation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Scandinavian Philology;Volume 20; Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Finnish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Swedish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: spatial metalexemes
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: words of measurement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: historical units of measurement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scandinavian units of measurement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian units of measurement
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Some observations on distance measurement words in Finnish and Swedish
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
resources.filename: 42-60.pdf
resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/37420/1/42-60.pdf
resources.format: Adobe PDF
resources.size: 734,81 kB