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442 Pages
by
Routledge
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... Read more
Introduction 1 Syntax 2 Morphology 3 Phonology 4 Ideophones and Interjections 5 Lexicon
Biography
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.
