Verbs typical to Aleksis Kivi in his writings

Aleksis Kivi is the national poet of Finland. He contributed to creating the basis of Finnish written language in the 19th century, at a time when Swedish language was still dominant especially in official communication. Although Kivi's mother tongue was Swedish, he developed an exceptionally rich vocabulary for Finnish language. Part of this vocabulary is not included into the current standard Finnish, although it is exceptionally expressive. In this report I will discuss the Kivi-specific vocabulary on the part of verbs. For making the study possible, I analysed all the texts of Kivi available in digital form and extracted the words that were not included into the morphological analyser of Finnish. Out of this extracted list I elicited those words that are Finnish but not in the list of standard Finnish. I added all Kivi-specific words to the morphological analyser, so that they can be spotted, analysed and retrieved regardless their form in text. Using this enhanced analyser, I analysed all Kivi's texts, so that it was possible to extract each Kivi-specific word. This method made possible to examine closely various features in Kivi's texts.