Maria Vilkuna

University of Helsinki | HY · Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies

This chapter discusses word order in Uralic languages, with the main focus on sentential constituent order. A brief assessment of the facts is also made regarding recent views on Greenbergian cross-constituent ordering generalizations. While constituent-internal order shows a great deal of uniformity across the family, variation is extensive in sen...

The Uralic (Finno-Ugric) languages, the second largest language family in Europe, including three European nation-state languages (Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian) and a number of minority languages in Northern Eurasia, look back to a long history of research. However, a major part of this research has been conducted within diverse national traditions...

Arvioidut teokset Adele E. Goldberg: Explain me this. Creativity, competition, and the partial productivity of constructions. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2019. 195 s. isbn 978-0-691-17426-6. Holger Diessel: The grammar network. How linguistic structure is shaped by language use. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019. 280 s. isbn 978-...

This paper shows that Finnish has the option of expressing ‘only’-like exclusive meaning with a clausal construction, here called the Exclusive-Negative Construction, ENC. It is similar to the better-known French ne…que construction but differs from it at many points where Finnish and French grammar differ, especially in the way negation is express...

Arvioitu teos Milla Uusitupa: Rajakarjalaismurteiden avoimet persoonaviittaukset. Publications of the University of Eastern Finland, Dissertations in Education, Humanities, and Theology 117. Joensuu: Itä-Suomen yliopisto 2017. 265 s. isbn 978-952-61-2645-3.

Emmi Hynönen: Suomen essiivi. Annales Universitatis Turkuensis, sarja C, osa 425. Turun yliopisto,Turku 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-29-6563-2. 246 sivua.

Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives is a collection of articles that approaches linguistic subordination as a semantico-grammatical and pragmatic phenomenon. The volume brings together cognitive, interactional and typological perspectives, and is characterised by extensive use of multi-genre data. The collec...

ISK on kattava kuvaus 1900-luvun jälkipuoliskolla käytetyn suomen kielen äänne-, muoto- ja lauseopillisista piirteistä. Kuvauksen pääkohteena on kirjoitettu yleiskieli, mutta paikoin analyysi on ulotettu koskemaan myös puhuttua kieltä. Tarkastelun ulkopuolelle jäävät varhemmat kielimuodot, mutta välistä on todettu jonkin ilmaustyypin vanhentuneisuu...

Consisting of eleven studies on languages with designated structural topic and focus positions, this study offers an introduction surveying the empirical and theoretical problems involved in the description of this language type. Unique in focusing on languages outside the traditional Indo-European group, the essays look at Chadic, Somali, Basque,...