All human languages contain terms to characterize personality traits—relatively enduring styles of thinking, feeling, and acting. All human cultures include words for describing individual differences in personality.
Morphology
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The urban space of Helsinki is cut into blocks composed by series of attached interior spaces that wrap around courtyard spaces. However, due to the layer-bylayer accumulation process over time—similar to the various affixes added to nouns and verbs in the Finnish language—the void spaces in each element tends to vary.
Some words cannot be translated into a corresponding word in other languages. For example, the Finnish word Tokka means a large herd of reindeers; Sisu means taking action against the odds and displaying courage and resoluteness in the face of adversity, thus expressing the historic self-identified Finnish national character.
The morphology of something is its form and structure. In linguistics, morphology refers to the way words are constructed with stems, prefixes, and suffixes. 1 Urban morphology is an accumulation of material and spiritual civilization in different historical stages of urban development, changing with the city's development. 2
Among the various patterns, three frequent patterns are abstracted from Helsinki’s urban area. One can see that these all these forms originate from a square. However, each of them changes its void shapes, representing the various affixes added to a sentence element. Reference 1. Comrie, Bernard. Language universals and linguistic typology: Syntax and morphology. University of Chicago press, 1989. 2. Levy, Albert. "Urban morphology and the problem of the modern urban fabric: some questions for research." Urban Morphology 3 (1999): 79-85. 3. Dixon, Robert MW. Where have all the adjectives gone?: and other essays in semantics and syntax. Vol. 107. Walter de Gruyter, 1982. 4. McCrae, Robert R., and Paul T. Costa Jr. "Personality trait structure as a human universal." American psychologist 52, no. 5 (1997): 509. 5. Helsinki aerial photograph, Color photograph, http://virtual.vtt.fi/virtual/proj6/cost/c3/gallery.htm (accessed April 12, 2015) 6. Alvermann, Donna E., Margaret C. Hagood, and Kevin B. Williams. "Image, language, and sound: Making meaning with popular culture texts." Reading online 4, no. 11 (2001): 2-7. 7. Harley, Trevor A. The psychology of language: From data to theory. Psychology Press, 2013. 8. GH-1128435973, Urban contact diagram, http://designguggenheimhelsinki.org/finalists/GH-1128435973 (accessed April 28, 2015)
Different from English language, the structure of a Finnish sentence is always composed with no prepositions but with various affixes to nouns or verbs to describe a scene.
From an urban point of view The Helsinki logic
From a linguistic point of view The Finnish logic Scott Murff
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MORPHOLOGY Spaces without preposition Guggenheim Helsinki
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ADE 622: Spring 2015 Advanced Architectural Studio IV
Student: Xi Zhu Instructor: Scott Murff