Fred Karlsson

Finnish: An Essential Grammar

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9781138821576
• ISBN-10: 1138821578
• Artikelnr.: 42472498

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.