Do girls and boys construct play interaction in the same way? These are among the topics addressed in the volume. The central theme of the volume is comparative analysis of interactional practices.

The book moves from the sound system through morphology and word classes to a detailed analysis of sentence structures and semantic features.

Colloquial Finnish is easy to use and completely up to date!

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

This second edition of Finnish: An Essential Grammar has undergone profound revisions.