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First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
PART I Translator's Preface Introduction I. The Phonetic Structure of Finnish II. Historical Phonology III. The Inter- relationship of Parts of Speech. IV. Inflexion and Derivation PART II I. The Old Native Vocabulary II. Loanwords III. Spontaneous Growth of Vocabulary IV. Conscious Development of Vocabulary V. Scope of Vocabulary and Ratio of Native Elements to Borrowed Calques VI. Alliterative Phraseology VII. Word Order VIII. Expression of Species. IX. Number X. Certain Uses of Locative Cases XI. Certain Uses of Possessive Suffixes XII. The Object Case XIII. Congruence XIV. Uni-personal Verbs XV. Nominal Constructions XVI. Miscellaneous Syntactical Factors ABBREVIATIONS BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Biography
Lauri Hakulinen, translated by John Atkinson
