KIN-LIITTEEN SEMANTIIKASTA JA DISKURSIIVISISTA TEHTÄVISTÄ.

This paper presents a study on two kinds of nominal expressions containing the morpheme -kin, the pronouns composed of a stem (jo-, ku-, mi-) and the suffix -kin, and the NP=kin construction in which -kin is a clitic focus particle attached to an independent noun. The starting point is the assumption that the pronouns with the suffix -kin have something in common with the NP=kin construction with respect to their referential properties. The analysis is based on the concept of scanning (Fr. parcours), defined as designating an operation that consists in going through items of a class without stopping at anyone. In addition to the simple pronouns jokin 'something', kukin 'each one', attention is paid to the two-part expressions with distributive meaning, such as milloin mikin 'at different times, different things'. The paper aims to show that the concept of scanning makes it also possible to shed light on the meaning and discourse functions of the NP=kin construction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]