@article{oai:nagoya.repo.nii.ac.jp:00017711,
 author = {Sakuma, Jun’ichi},
 journal = {Journal of the School of Letters},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {The Finnish language has a very complicated system for indicating the grammatical relations. What is involved in this case marking system are the nominative, the genitive and the partitive case. In the singular, Finnish has a tripartite system consisting of these three cases, by which two sets of oppositions can be represented at the same time. One of them is the opposition between subjects and objects , and the other is the opposition between definite and indefinite objects. The tripartite system is incomplete, however, since these three cases are not one-to-one correspondence with the grammatical relations they indicate. Moreover, it is not so infrequent that a subject and an object of the same sentence are indicated in the same case, especially in colloquial and dialectal speech. It is indeed true, however, that a subject and an object can be readily distinguished from each other on the basis of discourse information, even if they are not morphologically differentiated. This means that a differential marking of subjects and objects is not necessarily essential to the human languages.},
 pages = {1--12},
 title = {On the Tripartite System of Case Marking in the Finnish Language},
 volume = {10},
 year = {2014}
}