Esa Penttilä

List of John Benjamins publications for which Esa Penttilä plays a role.

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Dialects Across Borders: Selected papers from the 11th International Conference on Methods in Dialectology (Methods XI), Joensuu, August 2002

Edited by Markku Filppula, Juhani Klemola, Marjatta Palander and Esa Penttilä

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 273] 2005. xii, 291 pp.
Subjects Historical linguistics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology | Theoretical linguistics

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Nenonen, Marja and Esa Penttilä 2014 Constructional continuity: (Where) does lexicon turn into syntax? Words & Constructions: Language complexity in linguistics and psychology, Järvikivi, Juhani, Pirita Pyykkönen-Klauck and Matti Laine (eds.), pp. 316–337 | Article
This paper sketches a continuum between lexicon and syntax, with concrete examples from two typologically different languages, Finnish and English. While Finnish is a morphologically rich and relatively transparent synthetic language, full of inflectional and derivational morphology and… read more