Case and Other Functional Categories in Finnish Syntax

✍ Scribed by Anders Holmberg (editor); Urpo Nikanne (editor)

Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Year: 1993
Tongue: English
Leaves: 260
Series: Studies in Generative Grammar [SGG]; 39
Edition: Reprint 2014
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Abbreviations and Symbols
Introduction
PART 1: Case
Case Marking in Necessive Constructions and Split Intransitivity
Of Nominative and Accusative: the Hierarchical Assignment of Grammatical Cases in Finnish
On Assigning Semantic Cases in Finnish
Accusative Marking in Finnish
The Nature of the Accusative in Finnish
The Three Structural Cases in Finnish
PART 2: Other Functional Categories
Are Relative Clauses either Restrictive or Non-Restrictive? A Study of Relative Clauses in the Finnish Pear Stories
The structure of INFL and the Finite Clause in Finnish
What Makes Finnish Different? Remarks on a Sentence Type Theory of Finnish
Anaphors and Binding Domains in Finnish
Index of Names
Subject Index

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