The Finnish Case System: Cognitive Linguistic Perspectives

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This volume presents an up-to-date cognitive-linguistic account of the Finnish cases that would serve the interests of an international audience. As the Finnish linguistic tradition has always considered grammatical cases to be meaningful elements, this volume also addresses the extensive work by earlier scholars from different theoretical backgrounds. The volume consists of an introduction and eleven articles. The introduction presents the system of Finnish cases and provides a brief overview of the main tenets of cognitive linguistics, offering guidance for those readers who are not familiar with cognitive linguistics. Some articles focus on one case and present a unified account of its functions, others analyse a larger group of cases that form a system (the local cases), whereas yet others address the use of cases in certain constructions (such as expressions of change). This collection of articles also discusses more general topics, such as the notion of case, questions of polysemy, the traditional division of cases into grammatical and semantic, the relationship between inflection and derivation, and the role of inflection in the categories of adpositions and adverbs.

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Minna Jaakola, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her research interests include contextual analysis of grammar in the frame of cognitive linguistics, especially the semantics of cases, adpositions as well as epistemic and evidential adverbs.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8398-9939

Tiina Onikki-Rantajääskö is a professor of Finnish language at the University of Helsinki and a docent in cognitive linguistics at the University of Oulu. She is a specialist in cognitive linguistics. Her research interests include grammaticalisation, the history of Fennistics, language policy, semantics and the terminology of the arts and sciences.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1615-3437

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