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- Finnish Phonology and Morphology
- CEUS-R 309/509
- Tapio Hokkanen
Finnish Phonology and Morphology will open a window to the structure of a European, agglutinative-fusional language outside of the Indo-European language family. The course will be a hands-on introduction to questions of phonology and morphology and it will cover such topics as the Finnish sound system, quantity opposition, vowel harmony, diphthongs and consonant clusters, phono- and morphotactic constraints, consonant gradation, phonological processes, boundary gemination, role of enclitic particles, noun inflection and verb conjugation, stem formation / stem selection, derivation and compounding and some morphosyntactic issues. Even though the approach is descriptive and for most of the time synchronic, the course will also deal with certain historical aspects. Structures and features common in Finnish and other languages in the Finno-Ugric family will be contrasted to the ones in the English language.
No prior knowledge of Finnish is required.
