Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics (CSLI Lecture Notes)

Nelson, Diane Carlita (Editor)/ Manninen, Satu (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1575864126 / ISBN 13: 9781575864129

Published by Stanford Univ Center for the Study, 2003

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452 pages. 9.25x6.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics (CSLI Lecture Notes)
• Publisher: Stanford Univ Center for the Study
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1575864126
• ISBN 13: 9781575864129
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 2.81 kilograms

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Synopsis

With unusual structural characteristics, Finnish and Saami offer interesting challenges to linguistic theories formulated around more popular languages. Grammatically, for instance, languages in the Finnic and Saami group utilize extensive systems of case inflection on nouns to signal a broad variety of relations that in almost all other languages require additional words. Phonologically, as another example, the phenomenon of "consonant gradation" is of particular interest to linguists.

This volume is the first to examine the phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics of Finnic and Saami languages within current generative linguistic frameworks. Collected here is research on these less-studies languages, some of which now face extinction.