Spreading the Written Word: Mikael Agricola and the Birth of Literary Finnish
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978-952-222-674-7
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Preface
Abbreviations and Symbols
1. From a Pre-Literary to a Literary Culture
1.1 Mediaeval Heritage
1.1.1 A Literary Culture Arrives in Finland
1.1.2 Finnish in Texts of Other Languages
1.1.3 Finnish in the Middle Ages
1.2 The Reformation Progresses to Finland
1.2.1 New Teachings in Wittenberg
1.2.2 The Reformation Expands to Scandinavia
1.2.3 The First Reformation Messengers and Strongholds in Finland
1.3 The First Finnish Manuscripts
2. The Life of Mikael Agricola
2.1 Family Background and Early Schooling
2.2 A Schoolboy in Vyborg
2.3 Work as Secretary to the Bishop
2.4 A Student in Wittenberg
2.5 A Cathedral School Headmaster
2.6 From a Bishop’s Assistant to Bishop
3. The Finnish Works of Mikael Agricola
3.1 Agricola’s Primer / Abckiria
3.2 Agricola’s Prayer Book / Rucouskiria Bibliasta
3.3 Agricola’s New Testament / Se Wsi Testamenti
3.4 Agricola’s Agenda / Käsikiria Castesta ia muista Christikunnan Menoista
3.5 Agricola’s Missal / Messu eli Herran Echtolinen
3.6 Agricola’s Passion / Se meiden Herran Jesusen Christusen Pina
3.7 Agricola’s Psalter / Dauidin Psaltari
3.8 Agricola’s Collection of Canticles and Prophecies / Weisut ia Ennustoxet Mosesen Laista ia Prophetista Wloshaetut
3.9 Agricola’s Three Minor Prophets / Ne Prophetat Haggai SacharJa Maleachi
4. Finnish in the Works of Mikael Agricola
4.1 Agricola’s Alphabet and its Characters
4.2 Phonetic Length
4.3. Individual Characters by Phonetic Class
4.3.1 Stops
4.3.2 Fricatives Not Known in Contemporary Finnish
4.3.3 Semivowels j and v
4.3.4 Other Consonants
4.3.5 Vowel Quality
4.3.6 Phonetic Phenomenon and Inflectional Forms
4.4 Nominal Inflection
4.4.1 Declension: Case Inflection
4.4.2 Pronouns
4.5 Conjugation: Finite Verbal Inflection
4.5.1 Main Classes
4.5.2 Moods
4.5.3 Tenses
4.5.4 Personal Inflection
4.5.5 Two Important Features
4.6 Infinitive Verbal Forms
4.7 Possessive Suffixes
4.8 Special Syntactic Features in Agricola
4.8.1 Word Order
4.8.2 Passive Constructions and Reflexive Expressions
4.8.3 Congruency
4.8.4 Conjunctions
4.8.5 Non-Finite Clauses
4.9 Vocabulary in the Works of Agricola
4.9.1 Statistics on Agricola’s Vocabulary
4.9.2 Basic Vocabulary
4.9.3 Word Formation
4.9.4 Dialectical Vocabulary
4.9.5 Loanwords and Calques
4.9.6 Remnants of the Past in Agricola’s Vocabulary
4.9.7 Cultural-Historical Evidence
5. Mikael Agricola’s Networks in Finland and Abroad
5.1 Agricola’s Teachers, Assistants and Supporters
5.2 Agricola as a Representative of Finland
5.3 Agricola as a Provider of Information and Influence from Abroad
6. The Legacy of Mikael Agricola
6.1 The Literary Legacy of Mikael Agricola
6.2 Research on Michael Agricola and His Life’s Work
6.3 Mikael Agricola as a National Figure
Timeline of Events in the Life of Mikael Agricola
Bibliography
Source Materials
Literature
Historical Personal Names
Place Names in Past and Present Finland
Naming in Finland
Historical Provinces
Inflectional Paradigms in Finnish
Nominal Inflection
Possessive Suffixes
Nominal Inflection with Possessive Suffixes
Personal Pronoun Inflection
Verbal Inflection
Infinitive (Non-Finite) Forms
Abstract
The most important places throughout Mikael Agricola’s life
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