The paper presents a concise overview of the main syntactic features of Estonian. It deals
with basic clause patterns, case marking of arguments, verbs and verb categories, non …

Though the Estonian nominal case of adessive is called a “local case” in traditional
grammar, it denotes “local relations' far less often than it occurs in other functions which …

This contribution provides a historical sketch ofthe emergence andgradual elaboration of a
Standard variety of Estonian seen against the background of the development of society …

The quotative mood or modus obliquus, which presents mediated or reported information,
has been regarded as an essential common feature of the Baltic linguistic areal (Stolz 1991 …

Tämä artikkeli tarkastelee sijaterminologian kehitystä uralilaisten kielten kuvauksissa
(kieliopeissa ja lyhyemmissä teksteissä). Uralilaisten kielten kuvausten sijaterminologia …

During the last millenium the Balto-Finnic languages, Estonian among them, have evolved
under extremely unstable social conditions, characterized by frequent changes in the society …

Like in Indo-European languages a lot of suppletion is observed in the morphology
of'be'verbs in the Uralic languages. In both language families those verbs are the main …

Though it is called a" local case"(kohakääne) in traditional grammar, 2 the Estonian
adessive does not occur in the function of locative adverbial as frequently as one would …

In the history of written Estonian, three patterns were used for number words ranging from 21
to 99. As a result, complex numerals varied considerably, eg, the word 21 exhibited unit …

Osa liitarvsõnu on eesti keele esimestest mälestistest tänini püsinud suuresti ühe sugusena.
Nii on see olnud teistkümnetega (11–19), kümneliste (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90) …