Ilona Tragel

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor (Assistant) at University of Tartu

The article presents results from a survey about the academic writing practices among the students of the University of Tartu (Estonia). We analyse how the use of generative artificial intelligence has changed between spring 2023 and spring 2024. Our data shows that there has been a small increase in the percentage of students who have used the hel...

Artikkel annab ülevaate mitmuse esimese isiku väljendamise vahendite (verbivormid ja asesõnad) ja viisakusväljendite (ekspressiivsed kõneaktid palumine, vabandamine ja tänamine) kasutamisest koroonapiirangusiltidel. Uurimuse lähtematerjal oli 900 koroonapiirangute uksesilti perioodist 13.03.2020–29.11.2021. Analüüsi eesmärk on iseloomustada sildi a...

Artiklis antakse ülevaade Eesti koroonapandeemiaaegsete piirangusiltide kogumisest ja uurimisest. Avaliku ruumi keelelisi sõnumeid on senini uuritud peamiselt keelemaastike suuna raames, fookusega eri keelte kasutusel või siltide keelekasutuse ja visuaalide vahekorral. Koroonapiirangute aegne siltide rohkus võimaldab põhjalikumalt kui kunagi varem...

This article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of 900 Estonian COVID-19 door signs, which were studied to investigate the linguistic means of establishing and maintaining contact between the sign's author (institution) and the addressee (client). Malinowski's notion of “phatic communion” and Laver's notions of “self-oriented” and “oth...

In recent decades, the concept of key competencies has become increasingly relevant in education, prompting universities to revise their curricula to make more room for subject-independent skills and knowledge. We argue that the best way to incorporate key competencies into the curriculum is teaching them through different subjects. In favour of th...

Kokkuvõte. Uurimus põhineb autorite välja töötatud joonistamise ja häälega mõtlemise katse tulemustel. Katses paluti katseisikutel (21 eesti keelt emakeelena kõnelejat) kujutada ja selgitada katse läbiviijale 24 verbi suunda (näiteks nooltega). Selles artiklis esitame täpsemalt neist kahe – jääma ja jätma – analüüsi. Verb jätma on jääma kausatiivtu...

Kokkuvõte. Artikkel käsitleb kausatiivsuse väljendusvahendeid suulises eesti keeles. 14 eesti keelt emakeelena kõnelejat kirjeldasid 43 videoklipis kujutatud põhjustamisahelat. Uurimuse esimene eesmärk oli saada ülevaade kasutatud väljendusvahenditest. Materjalis esinesid täielikult põhjuslikkust väljendavad vahendid (põhjustamis- ja tulemussündmus...

In this paper, the methodology of verb classification is addressed. The main aim is to provide an overview of the possible ways verbs and sentence patterns could be analysed for the purpose of verb classification, and to reveal the possible shortcomings of different methods and problems of verb classification in general. For that purpose, the rare...

Sõna taevas on peetud balti või veel vanemaks indoeuroopa laenuks eesti keeles. Selle laensõnaga väljendati peale taevaruumi ka taevasi ja üleloomulikke-jumalikke nähtusi. Artiklis avame sõna taevas etümoloogilist tausta ning seejärel analüüsime sõna tähendusi ja kasutusmustreid tänapäeva eesti kirjakeeles ja murretes. Näitame, kuidas ruumilises as...

Is motion cognition influenced by the large-scale typological patterns proposed in Talmy's (2000) two-way distinction between verb-framed (V) and satellite-framed (S) languages Previous studies investigating this question have been limited to comparing two or three languages at a time and have come to conflicting results. We present the largest cro...

Serial verb constructions have been considered as a grammatical technique, which shows functional similarities with multiclausal and subordinative constructions in non-serializing languages (Aikhenvald 2006: 2-3). In this paper I examine the type of the VV-construction in Estonian, which resembles the type of construction called serial verb constru...

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, an...

This article gives an overview of a study conducted at the University of Tartu aiming to chart the prevalence of and types of academic written assignments from the perspective from teachers and students. Charting academic writing was considered the first step to better understand writing needs and opportunities in order to find support to develop a...

In this paper we use corpus data and a constructional approach to describe the grammaticalization of a hitherto little studied võtma ‘get’ + Vinf1 construction in Estonian. The availability of Estonian language corpora has made it possible to follow the changes in the use of the construction over time. The development and use of the construction ha...

The paper gives a panchronic overview of the central lexical uses and constructions related to the polysemous Estonian verb saama 'to get', from its first records in the written language until the present day. The paper concentrates on the main semantic categories that saama expresses in its lexical usage. The potential development paths of the cen...

Introduction to the special issue “Theoretical linguistics in Estonia III”

This paper presents an overview of the history and usage of the Estonian verb saama 'to get'. We take the grammaticalization approach which posits that, diachronically, the language unit undergoing grammaticalization becomes more and more abstract, both semantically and functionally. Here we present the grammaticalization story of what was original...

Estonian, a Finno-Ugric language, is usually considered not to have a possessive perfect (have-perfect). In this article, we argue that there is a construction which is functionally similar to the have-perfect in many European languages. It is based on a possessive construction, as with the have-perfect in other European languages, but since the Es...

Artiklis käsitletakse eesti keele polüseemse verbi tahtma semantilist ja morfosüntaktilist arengut 16. sajandist kuni tänapäevani. Materjal pärineb põhiosas eesti kirjakeele korpustest. Grammatisatsiooniteooria taustal vaadeldakse astmeid, mille see verb on eesti keeles läbinud alates täistähenduslikust kasutusest kuni kõrgel grammatisatsiooniastme...

The contributions to this volume focus on what language and language use reveals about cognitive structure and underlying cognitive categories. Wide-ranging and thought-provoking essays from linguists and psychologists within this volume investigate the insights conceptual categorization can give into the organization and structure of the mind and...

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