Esa Penttilä

List of John Benjamins publications in which Esa Penttilä is involved.

Title

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

Nonstandard varieties of languages have recently become an object of new interest in scholarly research. This is very much due to the advances in the methods used in data collection and analysis, as well as the emergence of new language-theoretical frameworks. The articles in this volume stem from… read more

[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 273] 2005. xii, 291 pp.

Article

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