Y. H. Toivonen’s scientific contributions

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Suomen kielen etymologinen sanakirja (Finnish Etymological Dictionary)
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April 1956

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Felix J. Oinas

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Y. H. Toivonen

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... To put it pointedly, the actors in the peopled world view were living and human-like agents instead of non-intentional physical forces. The fact that the Finnish personal pronoun hän (he/she) also referred to animals and objects (he/she/it) long into the 19th century (Häkkinen 2013) may be one example of this way of understanding the world. ...

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Vital scrap – The agency of objects and materials in the Finnish 19th-century world view
Suomen kielen etymologinen sanakirja (Finnish Etymological Dictionary)
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  • April 1956

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