Learning outcomes

To analyse Finnish phonology and morphology and to become familiar with prosodic phonology.

Contents

An introduction to Finnish phonology and morphology. During this course, students become familiar with the following subjects: the phoneme paradigm of the Finnish language and issues of phonotaxis, morpheme types, word stem variants and morphotaxis, classification of nouns and verbs according to their inflectional types, different inflectional categories, the most important morphophonological variations, ways of derivations and derivative types.

Teaching methods

Lectures and exercises.

Teaching language

Finnish

Evaluation and evaluation criteria

Numeric 1-5.
Evaluation by written mid-course exam, final examination, exercises and literary discussions.

Recommended year of study

1. year autumn

Study materials

In addition to or instead of the afore-mentioned material there will possibly be other research material selected by the teacher. Hakulinen, Auli ym., Iso suomen kielioppi. SKS. 2004. p. 37–193; Hakulinen, Auli & Pentti Leino (toim.), Nykysuomen rakenne ja kehitys 1. SKS. 1983. p. 57–95 and 112–137 (articles by Heikki Paunonen, Fred Karlsson and Alpo Räisänen).

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