A01=Helena Sulkala
A01=Merja Karalainen
Adverbial Clause
Author_Helena Sulkala
Author_Merja Karalainen
case system studies
Category=CFK
Consonant Gradation
Copular Complement
Derivative Affix
Echo Question
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Finnish morphophonological structure
Finno-Ugric linguistics
Head Word
Indirect Question Clause
Inflectional Stem
Intransitive
Intransitive Verb
language typology
Main Verb
morphosyntactic analysis
Non-finite Constructions
Participial Construction
Possessive Suffix
Postpositional Phrase
Question Morpheme
Question Word Question
Reciprocal Pronoun
Relative Clause
Sentence Initial Position
Subordinate Clause
Superordinate Clause
Superordinate Verb
Verb Olla
verbal inflection research
vowel harmony
Word Form
Product details
- ISBN 9780415657136
- Weight: 820g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Feb 2013
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Finnish is one of the Finno-Ugrian family of languages, and being historically linked with Swedish, can be compared with that language, particularly in its vocabulary. There are about five million native speakers of the language and large Finnish-speaking minorities in Norway, Sweden, the USA and Canada. It is a morphologically rich language, which has 15 cases and a variety of finite and non-finite verbal categories. Its inflectional suffixes have a wide range of grammatical functions and a large number of derivational affixes, providing a productive source of word formation. It has a complex vowel system. This descriptive grammar explores many interesting details of Finnish syntax, morphology, phonology and lexicon, providing the linguist, for the first time in English, with the opportunity for cross-language comparisons and making this important language accessible to a wide range of theoretical and descriptive linguistic analysis.
Helena Sulkala teaches at the University of Oulu in Finland. She has conducted research into the lexicon and semantics of Finnish and has published comparative studies of Finnish and Estonian grammar. Merja Karjalainen also teaches at the University of Oulu and publishes research into child language.
