@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00006787,
 author = {SAKUMA, Jun'ichi},
 journal = {Journal of the School of Letters},
 month = {},
 note = {In the Finnish language there is a type of sentence called the permissive construction.This construction conveys the meaning ‘to permit someone to do something’. It contains a first infinitive as its verbal complement and the semantic subject of the infinitive is overtly expressed in the genitive case. The most characteristic feature of this construction is that the semantic subject of the verbal complement is controlled neither by the matrix subject nor by the matrix object. The meaning conveyed by the permissive construction is similar to that conveyed by the object control construction indeed. But they are morpho-syntactically distinct from each other. The diachronic development of the permissive construction has been largely influenced rather by the necessitative construction. This can be shown by the fact that the former construction has much in common with the latter one. Above all, the genitive case of the infinitival subject of the permissive construction goes back to the dative genitive case in old Finnish, and the same is true of the necessitative construction. This is one of the reasons the genitive marking of the permissive construction has remained unchanged.},
 pages = {1--10},
 title = {On the Diachronic Development of the Permissive Construction in the Finnish Language},
 volume = {2},
 year = {2006}
}