Open AccessSkolt Saami: A typological profile
Author(s) -
Matti Miestamo
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
suomalais-ugrilaisen seuran aikakauskirja
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1798-2987
pISSN - 0355-0214
DOI - 10.33340/susa.82233
Subject(s) - lexicon , linguistics , syntax , phonology , grammar , word order , computer science , feature (linguistics) , natural language processing , philosophy
This article presents a typological overview of Skolt Saami based on the examination of the features in the World Atlas of Language Structures (WALS) database. The relevant properties of Skolt Saami are discussed and the language is assigned a value for each feature. The features cover phonology, different domains of grammar – morphology, nominal categories, nominal syntax, verbal categories, word order, simple clauses and complex sentences - as well as some aspects of the lexicon. The typological profile Skolt Saami that emerges from the examination of the features is then compared with the languages in the database to see what the typological distance is between Skolt Saami and these other languages.