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Topic: Finnish language noun cases

	Declension
		In the general sense it is the alteration of a noun to indicate its grammatical role.
		This noun is in the trigger case, and information elsewhere in the sentence (for example a verb affix in Tagalog) specifies the role of the trigger.
		The trigger may be identified as the agent, patient, etc. Other nouns may be inflected for case, but the inflections are overloaded; for example, in Tagalog, the subject and object of a verb are both expressed in the genitive case when they are not in the trigger case.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/d/de/declension.html (928 words)

	Finnish language at AllExperts
		Finnish () is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92%[https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/fi.html]) and by ethnic Finns outside Finland.
		The Ruija dialect (Ruijan murre) is spoken in Finnmark (Finnish Ruija), in Norway.
		Nouns may be suffixed with the markers for the aforementioned accusative case and partitive case, the genitive case, eight different locatives, and a few other cases.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fi/finnish_language.htm (5477 words)

	Finnish language noun cases - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Nouns in the Finnish language have a large number of grammatical cases, which are detailed here.
		In Finnish grammatical descriptions it is often maintained that objects in nominative or genitive form should be analyzed as distinct accusative case forms, which are merely homonymic with the nominative or the genitive.
		The basic meaning of this case is a lack of telicity, that is, it is not indicated whether the intended result has been achieved.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Finnish_language_noun_cases (1628 words)

	Declension -
		In linguistics, declension is a paradigm of inflected nouns.
		This noun is in the trigger case, and information elsewhere in the sentence (for example a verb affix in Tagalog) specifies the role of the trigger.
		The Status of Morphological Case in the Icelandic Lexicon by Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Case_(linguistics) (931 words)

	Finnish
		Languages of the World is brought to you by the National Virtual Translation Center.
		Finnish does not distinguish gender in nouns or in personal pronouns, so, for example han can be either "he" or "she".
		Finnish is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for speakers of English.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/Finnish.html (581 words)

	Finnish language -
		Finnish is one of two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish, spoken by a 5% minority) and thus an official language of the European Union.
		The Ruija dialect (Ruijan murre) is spoken in Finnmark (Finnish Ruija), in Norway.
		Nouns may be suffixed with the markers for the aforementioned accusative case and partitive case, the genitive case, eight different locatives, and a few other cases.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Finnish_(language) (5777 words)

	The Museum of Human Language
		Minority peoples tend to neglect their native language and learn the language of the dominating culture, whether that means switching from Provençal (southern France) to French, from Ainu (Hokkaido) to Japanese, from Berber (Morocco) to Arabic, or from Yakut (Northeast Asia) to Russian.
		In learning their first language, infants acquire a kind of categorical perception which they were not necessarily born with.
		Learning a second language is not exactly like learning a new dance step, because people don’t normally grow up in a society using only one step and basing much of their lives on it.
	www.geocities.com /agihard/mohl/mohl_languages.html (3867 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Finnish language noun cases
		Nouns in the Finnish language have a large number of grammatical cases, which are detailed here.
		In Finnish grammatical descriptions it is often maintained that objects in nominative or genitive form should be analyzed as distinct accusative case forms, which are merely homonymic with the nominative or the genitive.
		The basic meaning of this case is a lack of telicity, that is, it is not indicated whether the intended result has been achieved.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Finnish_language_noun_cases (1740 words)

	Overview of the Finnish Language to Help You Learn Finnish
		The Finnish language belongs to the Finno-Ugrian group of languages, which is spoken in a region that extends from Norway into Siberia and the Carpathian Mountains.
		The Finnish language, like many languages, has been greatly influenced by other cultures over a long period of time and is still in the process of evolution.
		The Finnish language appears to be rooted in the distant past.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/Finnish/overview.htm (514 words)

	A Very Short Finnish Grammar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric family of languages, which is not related to any branch of the Indo-European language family.
		Finnish has a relatively simple relationship between spelling and pronunciation: generally, each letter corresponds to exactly one sound, and a letter is doubled to indicate a long sound.
		Finnish has an unusually large number of cases, although many of them are equivalent to the use of a preposition in many other languages.
	www.lysator.liu.se /language/Languages/Finnish/Grammar.html (1145 words)

	European Languages
		You may have noticed that a few languages spoken on the European continent are not included in the Indo-European family of languages.
		The western languages generally use /s/ as a plural marker, though it is silent in spoken French, while the eastern languages use vowels.
		The Slavic languages are spoken in Eastern Europe and Russia and are the harder of the three language groups analyzed to learn.
	www.ielanguages.com /eurolang.html (1535 words)

	Linguistics
		Language is said to be lateralized and processed in the left hemisphere of the brain.
		These cases of isolated children, and of deaf children, show that humans cannot fully acquire any language to which they are exposed unless they are within the critical age.
		The Dravidian languages of Tamil and Telugu are spoken in southeastern India and Sri Lanka.
	www.ielanguages.com /linguist.html (8167 words)

	Finnish language noun cases Information
		Nouns in the Finnish language have a large number of grammatical cases, which are detailed here.
		In Finnish grammatical descriptions it is often maintained that objects in nominative or genitive form should be analyzed as distinct accusative case forms, which are merely homonymic with the nominative or the genitive.
		The basic meaning of this case is a lack of telicity, that is, it is not indicated whether the intended result has been achieved.
	www.bookrags.com /Finnish_language_noun_cases (1592 words)

	GFs in Finnish
		In the sentence (2), the noun after the verb, ëboysí are supposed to be the accusative plural, which sometimes takes the same form as the nominative plural, and we cannot determine the case on the basis of the forms.
		In language which employ this topic-subject, such as English, the subjects are usually definite, and some ëpresentational pragmatic articulationsí are required to introduce the agent-type participants into the discourse (Shophen 119).
		In Finnish, the subject needs to be the nominative, which expresses the definite entity, if it is used as the subject of the transitive verb, which requires two arguments, an agent and a patient, most of the time.
	www.uiowa.edu /~linguist/classes/typology99/languages/Finnish/GFs.html (1659 words)

	Languages : Indo-European Family
		The Slavic languages are famed for their consonant clusters and large number of cases for nouns (up to seven).
		Lithuanian is one of the oldest of the Indo-European languages.
		Armenian is spoken in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (an enclave in Azerbaijan).
	www.krysstal.com /langfams_indoeuro.html (1883 words)

	Language Reference Guide For Finnish
		Nouns, adjectives and pronouns decline in 15 cases in plural and singular.
		Besides being the national language of Finland, where it is spoken by around 5 million people or 94% of the population, it is spoken by about 300,000 people in Sweden, approximately 12,000 people in the northern parts of Norway, 70,000 people in the United States and 50,000-100,000 people in north-western Russia.
		Finnish is one of the few languages of Europe not of the Indo-European family.
	www.translationdirectory.com /article681.htm (817 words)

	LANGUAGE SCHOOL EXPLORER
		In the menu click on the language you want to study and the country where you want to study it.
		The result is an overview of language institutes providing the training you are looking for.
		In many cases you will find besides a telephone and fax number a direct link to the website of the school by just clicking on the name.
	language.school-explorer.com (163 words)

	FINNS: Uralic Languge Family
		The Finnish language is born and spoken in tents, then log homes and saunas.
		Today the western Uralic and eastern Altaic languages, extend from Scandinavia, Hungary, and the Balkans in the south-west, to the easternmost reaches of the Amur and the island of Sakhalin, and from the Arctic Ocean to central Asia.
		Finnish and Estonian texts survive from the Protestant Reformation, which swept over Scandinavia and much of the Baltic in the 16th century; the reformer of the Finns, Michael Agricola (1512-57), also translated the Bible into Finnish.
	uralica.com /langclas.htm (1611 words)

	Turkish Language - About Turkish
		Many of these languages are multi-intelligible although local usage and vocabulary, spelling and alphabet may differ - however they all exhibit the same grammatical structure of agglutination and vowel harmony.
		Turkish being a language emanating from Central Asia, is spoken from the borders of Greece to the hinterland of Western China, there may also be some affinity with the Hungarian, Finnish, Korean and some of the indigenous American Indian languages.
		It is because of this expansion that the language and vocabulary is peppered with words from Arabic, Persian and European languages.
	www.turkishlanguage.co.uk /about.htm (2069 words)

	Intercultural relationships - facts about finns
		First of all, Finnish is currently spoken by a mere 0.05% of the world's population; secondly one cannot learn the language in ten easy lessons; thirdly, a large number of Finns still do not understand it.
		This method of demonstrating your mastery of case usage is completely safe since, although you cannot prove that you were right, nobody, Finn or otherwise, can ever prove that you were wrong.
		The basic idea is: In Finnish the direct object (commonly called the accusative object) may occur in the nominative, the genitive, or the partitive case.
	www.helsinki.fi /~jshermun/language.htm (987 words)

	Finnish as a World Language
		First of all, Finnish is currently spoken by a mere 0.05% of the world's population; secondly one cannot learn the language in ten easy lessons; thirdly, a large number of Finns still do not understand it.
		The basic idea is: In Finnish the direct object (commonly called the accusative object) may occur in the nominative, the genitive, or the partitive case.
		As to the question of the prospect of Finnish as a global language, I think I do not misspeak myself by saying that the work of this article should settle the matter clearly and finally.
	www.idiocentrism.com /squib.finn2.htm (968 words)

	Finnish as a World Language
		First of all, Finnish is currently spoken by a mere.05% of the world's population; secondly one cannot learn the language in ten easy lessons; thirdly, a large number of Finns still do not understand it.
		One Finnish word can mean several different things in English.
		Finnish has longer and better swear words than any other language.
	www.mit.edu /~tahnan/finnish.html (1078 words)

	Fallen Tower
		Aluric: an incomplete alien language containing 70 sounds, 7 noun/adjective cases, a complex but logical tense system, and a vocabulary drawn from roots present in many languages and expandable by means of numerous affixes.
		CycL: a formal language whose syntax derives from first-order predicate calculus (the language of formal logic).
		Laadan: language developed with idea that existing human languages are inadequate to express the perceptions of women It has a number of very interesting features: i.e., Speech Act Morphemes and Evidence Act Morphemes (reminds me of Korean and Japanese) and an interesting pronoun system.
	www.geocities.com /Tokyo/Pagoda/5961/lingvoj.HTM (3995 words)

	Cases in Finnish
		akkusatiivi (accusative, objective, the case of an object) is often listed as a case, too, although its form coincides with the form of the nominative or the form of the genitive, except for the personal pronouns which have specific accusative forms (minut, sinut, etc.).
		Among the cases, the six cases inessiivi, elatiivi, illatiivi, adessiivi, ablatiivi, allatiivi form a rather orthogonal system of locative cases, with the first three referring to inner relations (in, from, into) and the rest to corresponding outer relations.
		Sometimes a case, eksessiivi, with ending -nta (combined from the -na of essiivi and -ta of partitiivi) is suggested, meaning 'from the role of', thus making the system of "pseudo-locative" cases more orthogonal.
	www.cs.tut.fi /~jkorpela/finnish-cases.html (1258 words)

	Finnish Noun Inflection
		The goal of this excercise is to build a lexicon that contains Finnish nouns inflected for number and case.
		In all of the cases below, the stem is identical with the nominative singular.
		In cases where the T in Genitive Plural marker is realized as t, it is subject to the consonant gradation rules and surfaces as d in most cases.
	www.stanford.edu /~laurik/fsmbook/exercises/FinnishNounInflection.html (1053 words)

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		Since natural language cross-language information retrieval is faced with the task of identifying, normalising, translating and matching query words to the database index, linguistic tools and linguistic analysis are in use.
		Natural language analysis tools are also extended in information retrieval and cross-language information retrieval applications also to a sub-word level, e.g., morphological analysers are used for the decomposing of compounds and normalisation of words (Sparck Jones 1999).
		In a test with Finnish queries in an English document database (47 test queries from the CLEF 2001 collection) the effect is hardly noticeable in the average precision over recall values for all the queries.
	informationr.net /ir/7-2/paper128.html (5909 words)

	Finnish Language Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		All in all, I couldn't say Finnish is "'useful" but if you are spending significant time in Finland, it will be worthwhile.
		The variations are confined to the spoken language.
		This is where Finnish has a rather fearsome reputation with its 14 noun cases.
	how-to-learn-any-language.com /e/languages/finnish.html (483 words)

	Lynch, Guide to Grammar and Style — C
		Finnish has boatloads of cases: nominative, genitive, accusative, partitive, inessive, elative, illative, adessive, ablative, allative, essive, translative, instructive, and abessive (I'm probably missing a few).
		Today, though, nouns take only two cases, one for the possessive (usually with apostrophe s), and one for everything else.
		Hair, for instance, is a mass noun in "He has very little hair left," but it's a count noun in "He has only four hairs left on his head" — the difference is whether we're concerned with individual strands.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Writing/c.html (3285 words)

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