Renate Pajusalu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 306110 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Renate Pajusalu |
| PRENOMES | Renate |
| SOBRENOME | Pajusalu |
| ASSINATURA | PAJUSALU R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Tartu |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0808-2680 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 16 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 2 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Are main clauses really ‘main’ clauses? The case of relative clauses in spoken Estonian and Finnish
The article concerns relative clause constructions and their main clauses in Estonian and Finnish conversation. The study shows that copula clauses and existential clauses predominate in the corpus data: these two clause types accounted for more than half of the main clauses. Such main clauses serve simply to introduce a referent which is then predicated upon in the relative clause and is likely to be subsequently discussed in the conversation. I…
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk
The present paper analyses self-reflexive opinions of 33 Estonians about small talk; it is based on interviews carried out in 2020–2022. The main topics covered in the paper are what participants consider small talk situations, how they feel in such situations, and what kind of topics they bring up or avoid. While silent Finns and silent Scandinavians appear in the literature almost as terms, research on Estonians and their behaviour has been sca…
Suulise relatiivlause süntaktilisi omadusi
This article explores the usage of relative clauses in spoken Estonian. The data come from the corpus of spoken Estonian (University of Tartu), and contain relative clauses beginning with the relativizers mis, kes and kus (in all cases). The collected data (410 relative clauses from institutional and non-institutional conversations) were coded for the syntactic role of the head NP and the relativizer, the position of the relative clause and the N…
Sise- ja väliskohakäänete kasutus määratlejaga nimisõnafraasides
In this paper, we investigate the Estonian spatial cases by comparing the use of inner spatial cases (i.e., the in-cases) and outer spatial cases (i.e., the on-cases). We focus on two-word phrases in which a demonstrative pronoun or an adverb precedes the noun (e.g., selles/siin majas â in this house (here)â , sellel/siin lehel â on this page (here)â ). The material is taken from the Estonian National Corpus 2017 and contains an equal number of s…
Suuline relatiivlause viitevahendina
Relative clauses in spoken Estonian as referential devices In this article, the usage of relative clauses in spoken Estonian in the overall framework of referential devices is studied. The data come from the corpus of spoken Estonian (University of Tartu), and contain relative clauses beginning with the relativizers mis â that (non-animate)â , kes â that (animate)â and kus â that, whereâ (in all grammatical cases). The collected data (403 relativ…
Demonstratiivpronoomenid ja -adverbid määratlejatena. Miks me oleme siin ilmas, selles olukorras
Kokkuvõte. Artiklis analüüsime eesti keele demonstratiivide referentsiaalseid omadusi sellistes konstruktsioonides, kus demonstratiivid kuuluvad definiitse määratlejana nimisõnafraasi koosseisu. Otsime vastust küsimusele, mille poolest erinevad demonstratiivadverb (nt siin, seal) ning demonstratiivpronoomen (see, too), kui need esinevad määratlejana koos kohakäändes nimisõnafraasiga (vrd siin koolis ja selles koolis). Oleme püstitanud hüpoteesi, …
Constructional variation in Estonian
Eesti keele viitevahendid kirjeldustes ja jutustustes
Viitamine on suhtluslik tegu, millega viiakse vastavusse referent ja keeleline väljend. Referent võib olla reaalse maailma isik, ese, olukord või sündmus, aga see võib olla ka mõni mõte, tekst või hoopis kujuteldav nähtus. Referent võib seega olla ükskõik mis, mida inimene keelekasutuses suudab käsitleda terviklikuna. Keeleline väljend, millega referendile viidatakse, võib olla üksik nimisõna (poiss, [...]
Pronouns as referential devices in Estonian, Finnish, and Russian
Requests, questions and space
This study is trying to answer the question of how does requesting differ in Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish and Russian. The data is elicited by written discourse completion tasks (DCT) in which native speakers of Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian were asked to complete the situations described by filling in appropriate requests or questions. Head acts of the sequences have been coded for relevant grammatical categories: …
Estonian Jumal 'God
The article focuses on semantics and the use of the word jumal 'god' in Estonian. At first, we give an overview of the etymology of jumal 'god' and its meanings in Standard Estonian and Estonian dialects. Then we examine jumal 'god' as a linguistic unit associated with different constructions and collocational patterns, bleaching of the meaning, and usage in fulfilling different communication goals. In our study we show how jumal 'god' can refer …
From Conversation to Proverbs
The article provides an overview of the use of the Estonian particle ikka 'sure, still' in spoken Estonian and makes an attempt to explain why this particle is so common in proverbs and South Estonian folk songs. Etymologically, ikka is associated with a temporal meaning and stems from the word iga 'time, lifetime, full time'. In contemporary Estonian ikka refers to the typicality and recurrence of an action, but it also points to an interruption…
Forms of address across languages
This paper examines linguistic politeness in a bilingual society, focusing on forms of address among Estonian speakers and Russian speakers in Estonia. We ask in what ways groups living in different conditions of societal bilingualism acknowledge different norms of politeness and hence exhibit different politeness behavior. Our study focuses especially on the choice of the formal or informal form of the second person pronoun, but we also investig…
Pragmatics of quantifiers
Multiple Motivations for Meaning of an Elative Wh-Construction in Estonian
The article discusses an elative wh-construction [mis NP nominative NP elative V?] in the Estonian language. Formally the construction is a question, but pragmatically it can be regarded as prohibition or negation of the sense of the proposition. It is a mixed construction, which consists of lexical, morphological, and pragmatic elements. The aim is to analyse what motivates the formation of the meaning of the construction
Death of a Demonstrative
Demonstratives comprise different systems in different Estonian dialect areas. The number of demonstrative pronouns in these systems ranges from one to three. The general tendency seems to be a decrease in the number of demonstrative pronouns in all dialectal varieties. The present article analyses the disintegration of two demonstrative systems. The article will first discuss the transformation of the South Estonian three-term demonstrative syst…
Death of a Demonstrative
Demonstratives comprise different systems in different Estonian dialect areas. The number of demonstrative pronouns in these systems ranges from one to three. The general tendency seems to be a decrease in the number of demonstrative pronouns in all dialectal varieties. The present article analyses the disintegration of two demonstrative systems. The article will first discuss the transformation of the South Estonian three-term demonstrative syst…
Multiple Motivations for Meaning of an Elative Wh-Construction in Estonian
The article discusses an elative wh-construction [mis NP nominative NP elative V?] in the Estonian language. Formally the construction is a question, but pragmatically it can be regarded as prohibition or negation of the sense of the proposition. It is a mixed construction, which consists of lexical, morphological, and pragmatic elements. The aim is to analyse what motivates the formation of the meaning of the construction
Death of a Demonstrative
Demonstratives comprise different systems in different Estonian dialect areas. The number of demonstrative pronouns in these systems ranges from one to three. The general tendency seems to be a decrease in the number of demonstrative pronouns in all dialectal varieties. The present article analyses the disintegration of two demonstrative systems. The article will first discuss the transformation of the South Estonian three-term demonstrative syst…
Pragmatics of quantifiers
Forms of address across languages
This paper examines linguistic politeness in a bilingual society, focusing on forms of address among Estonian speakers and Russian speakers in Estonia. We ask in what ways groups living in different conditions of societal bilingualism acknowledge different norms of politeness and hence exhibit different politeness behavior. Our study focuses especially on the choice of the formal or informal form of the second person pronoun, but we also investig…
From Conversation to Proverbs
The article provides an overview of the use of the Estonian particle ikka 'sure, still' in spoken Estonian and makes an attempt to explain why this particle is so common in proverbs and South Estonian folk songs. Etymologically, ikka is associated with a temporal meaning and stems from the word iga 'time, lifetime, full time'. In contemporary Estonian ikka refers to the typicality and recurrence of an action, but it also points to an interruption…
Estonian Jumal 'God
The article focuses on semantics and the use of the word jumal 'god' in Estonian. At first, we give an overview of the etymology of jumal 'god' and its meanings in Standard Estonian and Estonian dialects. Then we examine jumal 'god' as a linguistic unit associated with different constructions and collocational patterns, bleaching of the meaning, and usage in fulfilling different communication goals. In our study we show how jumal 'god' can refer …
Requests, questions and space
This study is trying to answer the question of how does requesting differ in Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish and Russian. The data is elicited by written discourse completion tasks (DCT) in which native speakers of Estonian, Finnish, Latvian, Lithuanian and Russian were asked to complete the situations described by filling in appropriate requests or questions. Head acts of the sequences have been coded for relevant grammatical categories: …
Pronouns as referential devices in Estonian, Finnish, and Russian
Eesti keele viitevahendid kirjeldustes ja jutustustes
Viitamine on suhtluslik tegu, millega viiakse vastavusse referent ja keeleline väljend. Referent võib olla reaalse maailma isik, ese, olukord või sündmus, aga see võib olla ka mõni mõte, tekst või hoopis kujuteldav nähtus. Referent võib seega olla ükskõik mis, mida inimene keelekasutuses suudab käsitleda terviklikuna. Keeleline väljend, millega referendile viidatakse, võib olla üksik nimisõna (poiss, [...]
Suuline relatiivlause viitevahendina
Relative clauses in spoken Estonian as referential devices In this article, the usage of relative clauses in spoken Estonian in the overall framework of referential devices is studied. The data come from the corpus of spoken Estonian (University of Tartu), and contain relative clauses beginning with the relativizers mis â that (non-animate)â , kes â that (animate)â and kus â that, whereâ (in all grammatical cases). The collected data (403 relativ…
Demonstratiivpronoomenid ja -adverbid määratlejatena. Miks me oleme siin ilmas, selles olukorras
Kokkuvõte. Artiklis analüüsime eesti keele demonstratiivide referentsiaalseid omadusi sellistes konstruktsioonides, kus demonstratiivid kuuluvad definiitse määratlejana nimisõnafraasi koosseisu. Otsime vastust küsimusele, mille poolest erinevad demonstratiivadverb (nt siin, seal) ning demonstratiivpronoomen (see, too), kui need esinevad määratlejana koos kohakäändes nimisõnafraasiga (vrd siin koolis ja selles koolis). Oleme püstitanud hüpoteesi, …
Constructional variation in Estonian
Suulise relatiivlause süntaktilisi omadusi
This article explores the usage of relative clauses in spoken Estonian. The data come from the corpus of spoken Estonian (University of Tartu), and contain relative clauses beginning with the relativizers mis, kes and kus (in all cases). The collected data (410 relative clauses from institutional and non-institutional conversations) were coded for the syntactic role of the head NP and the relativizer, the position of the relative clause and the N…
Sise- ja väliskohakäänete kasutus määratlejaga nimisõnafraasides
In this paper, we investigate the Estonian spatial cases by comparing the use of inner spatial cases (i.e., the in-cases) and outer spatial cases (i.e., the on-cases). We focus on two-word phrases in which a demonstrative pronoun or an adverb precedes the noun (e.g., selles/siin majas â in this house (here)â , sellel/siin lehel â on this page (here)â ). The material is taken from the Estonian National Corpus 2017 and contains an equal number of s…
Are main clauses really ‘main’ clauses? The case of relative clauses in spoken Estonian and Finnish
The article concerns relative clause constructions and their main clauses in Estonian and Finnish conversation. The study shows that copula clauses and existential clauses predominate in the corpus data: these two clause types accounted for more than half of the main clauses. Such main clauses serve simply to introduce a referent which is then predicated upon in the relative clause and is likely to be subsequently discussed in the conversation. I…
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk
The present paper analyses self-reflexive opinions of 33 Estonians about small talk; it is based on interviews carried out in 2020–2022. The main topics covered in the paper are what participants consider small talk situations, how they feel in such situations, and what kind of topics they bring up or avoid. While silent Finns and silent Scandinavians appear in the literature almost as terms, research on Estonians and their behaviour has been sca…
Linguistics (12 obras) · Estonian (10 obras) · Philosophy (9 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (6 obras) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (6 obras) · Computer Science (5 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (5 obras) · Sociology (5 obras) · Demonstrative (4 obras)