Ja hän tutkei – kaksitavuisten i-vartaloisten verbien imperfektin i ~ ei -vaihtelu ja sen esiintyvyys Satakunnan alueella puhuttavissa murteissa

Abstract

This article focuses on the i ~ ei variation occurring in verbs with stems ending in i. The ei variant demerges convergent verb forms in present and past tense, for example tutkin ’I research’ and tutkein ’I researched’. The aim of this article is to study the distribution of i ~ ei variation in dialects around the Satakunta province which is dialectically divided into two. In this article, there is a brief look at the historical situation and then an overview of the current situation of the variation. The data is collected from the Satakunta in Speech corpus. The i ~ ei variation seems to merge both the Southwestern and the Transitional Dialects. The ei variant may not be widely used, but it is still largely an extant feature in the dialects spoken in Satakunta.