Mihin suuntaan saamen progressiivirakenteet ovat menossa?

The Saami languages utilize a long-established progressive construction based on the inflected copula verb and so-called action essive form of main verb, for example North lea dahkamin ‘is doing’ dahkat ‘to do’. present paper examines an apparently innovative that has not been described before, similarly appearing in function but locative case deverbal noun -u, jođus going’ johtit travel, go, be motion’. data source used is SIKOR corpus, containing contemporary written language material several languages; supplementary sources both oral different ages are as well. reveals new frequently go’ modern (leat jođus) fairly known Inari Saami, too (leđe joođoost). It more rarely mannat manus); from there only single attestation this older data. Other verbs observed to similar construction, innovation seems confined use these two languages. argued language-internal external factors have contributed emergence leat including global tendency progressives develop out constructions most importantly model contact Finnish, where structurally identical commonly frequent motion (olla menossa ~ tulossa lähdössä mennä go’, tulla come’, lähteä depart’).