With its more than 5 million speakers, Finnish is the second largest
language of the family of the Finno-Ugric languages. The Finnish
language is characterized by a rich inflectional morphology, and it
is typologically classified as an agglutinative-fusional language. As
a result, words are often polymorphemic, and become, therefore,
remarkably long. It also follows that word paradigms can be very
large. The goal of this course is to provide an outline of Finnish
morphology, firstly, from morphophonological and morphosyntactic and,
secondly, from lexicological and historical points of view. The
course is aimed to students of linguistics and/or Uralic languages,
and although a previous previous knowledge of the language is an
advantage, it is not required.