Generative approaches to Finnic and Saami linguistics / edited by Diane Nelson and Satu Manninen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nelson, Diane Carlita, 1968-

Manninen, Satu, 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Finnic languages--Grammar, Generative.

Finnic languages.

Generative grammar.

Physical Description:

viii, 452 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : CSLI Publications, [2003]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1575864126

1575864118

OCLC:

51838579