n of of

Board of the Linguistic Association of Finland

1996

Chairperson:

Jussi Niemi

Secretary:

Tapio Hokkanen

Treasurer: Irja Alho

Address:

Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys Joensuun yliopisto, yleinen kielitiede

PL

¹¹¹

80101 Joensuu Finland

E-mail

addresses:

jniemi@joyljoensuu.fi,

thokka@j oyl

joensuu.fi ialho@joyljoensuu.fi

Members:

Marja-Liisa Helasvuo Tapio Hokkanen Tuomas Huumo Elise Kärkkäinen Marja Leinonen Jamo Raukko

Deputy Members:

Tapani Kelomäki

Kirsi

Hiln¡nen Timo Haukioja Helena Sulkala

Meri

Larjavaara

Timo

Järvinen

The

Linguistic

Association

of Finland

was founded

n

^{L977 to}

promote

linguistic

research

in

Finland

by offering

a

forum for

the discussion and dissemination

of

research

in

linguistics, both in Finland and abroad. Membership is open

to

anyone interested

in

linguistics; membership

forms

can

be

obtained

from

any

of

the board members. The membership fee

in

L994 was 100

FIM

(50

FIM for

students and unemployed members). Members are sent

a

newsletter and

they

receive

the

Association's yearbook gratis.

SKY 1996

Suomen kielitieteellisen yhdistyksen vuosiki rja L996 Språkvetenskapliga föreningens

i

Finland årsbok 1996 1996 Yearbook of the Linguistic Association of Finland

Edited by

Timo Haukioja, Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Elise Kärkkäinen

Suomen kielitieteellinen yhdistys Helsinki 1996

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emil¡ion¡ dLring production Hakapaino oy, Hels¡nk¡ 1996

ISSN

0785-3157

Contents

Acknowledgements 5

Marja-Líßa

Helasvuo:

A

Discourse Perspective on the Grammaticization of the Partitive Case

in

Finnish...

Tuomas Huumo: On the Semantic Function of Domain

Instrumentals 35

Esa Itkone¿: Is there a 'Computational Paradigm'

within

Linguistics? 53

Rina Laury:

Pronouns and Adverbs, Figure and Ground:

The Local Case Forms and Locative Forms of the

Finnish Demonstratives in Spoken Discourse... 65

Arja

Piirainen-Marsh: Face and the Organization

of

Intercultural Interaction... ...93

Eeva-Leena Seppönen: Ways of Referring to a Knowing

Co-participant in Finnish Conversation... ¹ 35 7

Acknowledgements

The editors would like to

express

their gratitude to

^the

contributors of ^{SKY 1996 Yearbook} of ^{the Linguistic}

Association

of Finland

as

well

as

the

scholars

who

acted as

referees, commenting on and evaluating the

^submitted

manuscripts.

V/ithout

your help, there would be no yearbook.

We would also

like to

thank the Academy

of

Finland and

the

advertisers

in the current volume for their

^financial

support, without which there would, again, be no yearbook.

We are also grateful to the editors

of

the previous volume

for their

guidance and

help. V/ithout you, there would

have been no hope

of

a yearbook which would even get close

to

the

standards you set.

Timo

Haukioja

Maria-Liisa

Helasvuo

Elíse Kcirkl<tiínen