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标题：Estonian Jumal ‘God’
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作者：Anni Jürine ; Karl Pajusalu ; Renate Pajusalu 等
期刊名称：Folklore : Electronic Journal of Folklore
印刷版ISSN：1406-0957
电子版ISSN：1406-0949
出版年度：2016
卷号：64
出版社：Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Folklore Institute
摘要：The article focuses on semantics and the use of the word jumal ‘god’ in Estonian. At first, we give an overview of the etymology of jumal ‘god’ and its meanings in Standard Estonian and Estonian dialects. Then we examine jumal ‘god’ as a linguistic unit associated with different constructions and collocational patterns, bleaching of the meaning, and usage in fulfilling different communication goals. In our study we show how jumal ‘god’ can refer literally to the higher power of Christianity or some other religion but it is also used in the weakened, bleached sense, meaning ‘very, completely’ or ‘total, absolute’, and in combination with certain verbs, meaning ‘random’, ‘indefinite’.
关键词：collocations; discourse analysis; Estonian; etymology; folk linguistics; semantics