(lit. ''"the large grammar of Finnish"'') is a reference book of

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

grammar In linguistics, the grammar of a natural language is its set of structural constraints on speakers' or writers' composition of clauses, phrases, and words. The term can also refer to the study of such constraints, a field that includes domain ...

. It was published in 2004 by the

Finnish Literature Society The Finnish Literature Society ( fi, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura ry or fi, SKS) was founded in 1831 to promote literature written in Finnish. Among its first publications was the ''Kalevala The ''Kalevala'' ( fi, Kalevala, ) is a 19th ...

and to this date is the most extensive of its kind. It is a collaboration written by noted Finnish language scholars and . The 1,698 page book differs from earlier grammars by taking a

descriptive In the study of language, description or descriptive linguistics is the work of objectively analyzing and describing how language is actually used (or how it was used in the past) by a speech community. François & Ponsonnet (2013). All acad ...

approach and describing

colloquial Finnish Colloquial or spoken Finnish () refers to the unstandardized spoken variety of the Finnish language, in contrast with the standardized form of the language (). It is used primarily in personal communication and varies somewhat between the differen ...

in addition to standard literary Finnish. The entire work is also freely available online.

External links

Complete online version of the work (in Finnish)
2004 non-fiction books Finnish grammar Grammar books {{Grammar-book-stub