Finnish : an essential grammar
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Finnish : an essential grammar
（Essential grammars）
Routledge, 2015
3rd ed
- : hardback
- : pbk
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"...a modified version of ... Finnish Grammar published by WSOY in Helsinki in 1983. The second edition ... went out of print in 1995. Finnish Grammar was a translation (by Andrew Chesterman) of the Finnish book Suomen peruskielioppi published in 1982. The original Swedish edition Finsk grammatik appeared in 1978 (and was translated by [the author] into Finnish) ... published by the Finnish Literature Society (Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura), Helsinki."--Pref
English and Finnish
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This thoroughly revised third edition of Finnish: An Essential Grammar is grounded in fundamental insights of modern linguistics and incorporates some of the latest achievements in the description of written and spoken Finnish.
It gives a systematic account of the structures of the written language and offers increased attention to the key characteristics of present-day colloquial Finnish. No prior knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader and grammatical rules are clearly explained without jargon.
Features of this new edition include:
* pronunciation guide, including the tendencies in present-day colloquial Finnish
* thorough descriptions of morphology (word structure) and syntax (sentence structure)
* clear rules and an abundance of concrete examples, from both written and colloquial Finnish
* updated vocabulary in the examples
* an effective new scheme for detecting the morphological structure of any word form
* subject index.
This is the ideal reference source both for those studying Finnish independently and for students in schools, colleges, universities and adult classes of all types.
Table of Contents
Preface. Abbreviations. 1. Introduction 2. Pronunciation and sound structure 3. Word structure 4. Two important sound alternations 5. The declension of nominals 6. The conjugation of verbs 7. Sentence structure 8. The nominative case and the partitive case 9. The genitive case, total objects and possessive suffixes 10. The six local cases 11. Other cases 12. Numbers and numerals 13. Pronouns 14. Tenses 15. Moods 16. The passive 17. Infinitives 18. Participles 19. Comparison of adjectives 20. Other word classes and clitics 21. Word formation 22. The colloquial spoken language Appendix 1. Appendix 2.
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