Spor etter det samiske kasussystemet i indrefinnmarksmålet

Abstrakt

The article deals with the Norwegian dialect of the interior of Finnmark county. This is an area that
has historically been closely linked to the Finno-Ugric population. The coexistence of Norwegian
as a representative of the Indo-European languages and Sámi as a representative of the Uralic
languages may have resulted in several specific features. The aim of this article is to identify those
features related to the Sámi case system: occurrence of atypical prepositions and an unusual
local perspective. In my analysis, I rely on data from the Nordic Dialect Corpus (Nordisk
dialektkorpus) – an electronic database that contains records of authentic dialect conversations
in various regions of Norway. The interior of the county of Finnmark is represented by three
places: Kautokeino, Tana and Lakselv.