Ruotsinkielisten alkeistason suomenoppijoiden paikallissijojen k yt st

This article presents the results of research on how Swedish-speaking students learning Finnish as a foreign language at the beginners’ level use the Finnish local cases in their writing. The research is based on the Swedish subcorpus of a larger electronic corpus entitled the International Corpus of Learner Finnish. At the time the survey work was conducted, the subcorpus contained 43 496 words. To find all occurrences of the six local cases, the corpus was analysed using a concord-programme as a tool. By inputting the case suffixes, e.g. the inessive suffixes ssa/sa and ss /s , as keywords, the programme found both the correct local case forms and the wrong ones.