Facing Finnic

Contents: Hannele Forsberg, The Finnic potential mood and the potential of Finnic; Riho Grünthal, Typological characteristics of the Finnic languages: a reappraisal; Cornelius Hasselblatt, The Finnic verb pattern: clues to (morpho)syntactic change? Petri Kallio, Posti's superstrate theory at the threshold of a new millennium; Eino Koponen, Zu Methoden und Prinzipien der ostseefinnischen Etymologie: der rätselhafte Mensch; Johanna Laakso, Sound history vs. historical grammar: some Finnic problems; Krista Ojutkangas, Grammaticalising habitive constructions in Finnic: käsi 'hand' in Estonian and Finnish; Karl Pajusalu, Alternation of e and a, ä in non-initial syllables in the southern group of the Finnic languages; Helka Riionheimo, When sisters meet: Ingrian Finnish in Estonia; Anneli Sarhimaa, Neighbours getting together in Karelia; Bernhard Wälchi, Livonian in a genetic, areal and typological perspective, or is Finnish better Finnic than Livonian? Nina Zajceva, Das Verhältnis von Regeln und Ausnahmen in der Grammatik des wepsischen Verbs.