The Finnic Languages
Riho Grünthal · 2023
This chapter is an overview of Finnic languages. It contains a general typological profile and phonological features of Finnic languages. The morphology section covers the properties of nominals (number, case, possession), verbs (tense, mood, aspect, person), and other parts of speech. The syntactic section includes information, for example, about basic clause types, possession, comparison, argument indexing and noun phrase flagging, negation, complex sentences (relative, complement, supporting), and questions. Each point is illustrated with authentic glossed, segmented, and translated examples from corpora. The chapter also contains a section on word-formation and information about the lexicon. The chapter concludes with a list of references.