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This compact and completely up-to-date, two-way dictionary provides a comprehensive and modern vocabulary, containing 85,000 headwords and phrases. It is the ideal reference for learners of Swedish. The maximum of information is provided in the minimum space, making the dictionary an invaluable reference source.

Features include:

* guide to Swedish pronunciation and inflexions

* important grammatical information provided: gender; plurals; past tense

* meaning and usage clearly signposted

* expressions and idioms of current written and spoken language

This thoroughly revised third edition of Finnish: An Essential Grammar is grounded in fundamental insights of modern linguistics and incorporates some of the latest achievements in the description of written and spoken Finnish.

It gives a systematic account of the structures of the written language and offers increased attention to the key characteristics of present-day colloquial Finnish. No prior knowledge is assumed on the part of the reader and grammatical rules are clearly explained without jargon.

Features of this new edition include:

pronunciation...

This book offers a survey of current work in Nordic and General Linguistics, with a special focus on language contact. The papers in this book were presented at the 11th International Conference of Nordic and General Linguistics (ICNGL) in Freiburg. The ICNGL conference series aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Scandinavian and other languages, between researchers from the Nordic countries and elsewhere.
The present volume focuses on language contact, which has always been a topic of great interest in Nordic Linguistics. Additionally, the contributions in this book address...

Die meisten Schriftsysteme sind zu komplex, als da sie sich allein anhand aufgelisteter Laut-Buchstaben-Zuordnungen erfassen lassen. Bei den skandinavischen Sprachen - Danisch, Schwedisch, Norwegisch (mit seinen Standards Bokmal und Nynorsk), Faroisch und Islandisch - sind auch folgende Gesichtspunkte zu beachten: Internationalitat von Graphemen, textkonnotative Kraft von Graphemen, Ligaturisierungsprozesse, stumme und tilgbare Grapheme, etymologisch 'richtige' und 'falsche' Schreibung, Restitution, Leseaussprache, Hyperkorrektur, Homonymiedifferenzierung,...