Generative Approaches to Finnic and Saami Linguistics: Volume 148 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781575864129)

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.

Author: Diane Nelson
ISBN-10: 1575864126
ISBN-13: 9781575864129
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2003
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 8.86h x 4.96w x 0.99d