Finnish: An Essential Grammar

This thoroughly revised 3rd edition gives a systematic account of the structures of the written language and offers increased attention to the key characteristics of present-day colloquial Finnish.

List 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.

About the author

Fred Karlsson is Professor Emeritus of General Linguistics at the University of Helsinki.

Summary

This thoroughly revised 3rd edition gives a systematic account of the structures of the written language and offers increased attention to the key characteristics of present-day colloquial Finnish.

Product details

• Authors: Fred Karlsson, Fred (University of Helsinki Karlsson, Karlsson Fred
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.05.2015
• EAN: 9781138821583
• ISBN: 978-1-138-82158-3
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Routledge Essential Grammars
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / Scandinavian Languages (Other), LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY / General, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Language teaching and learning, Language teaching & learning (other than ELT), Finnish (Suomi)