Liina Lindström

• PhD
• Professor at University of Tartu

Introduction Current research on occupational gender stereotypes in language has indicated that gender bias is influenced by various aspects, including social knowledge about roles associated with either men or women as well as linguistic information. This study focuses on gender perception of language users of Estonian and Russian. The former is a...

Speech varies from person to person, and much of how talkative someone is or how fast they speak depends on their personal characteristics. However, along with individual variability, sociodemographic patterns have also been found, for example, that the speech rate slows down with age, but also that women speak slower, clearer and more vividly than...

Throughout Estonian history, the language ideologies prevailing in Europe have had great influence on Estonian language planning. Language planners, in turn, have influenced the views of Estonian society. In this paper we analyse how language ideologies have supported myths and beliefs throughout the history of cultivating Standard Estonian. The pr...

Artiklis käsitletakse eesti keele mitmuse 1. isiku keeldkõne moodustamise ja kasutamise varieerumist, keelemuutuse kulgu ning järeldusi keelekorralduse jaoks. Mitmuse 1. isiku keeldkõnet saab moodustada nii imperatiivi keeldkõne vorme kasutades (ärgem tehkem) kui ka indikatiivi lõppe kasutades eitussõnal ja põhisõnal (ärme teeme) või ainult eitussõ...

This article focuses on English use in the example of Estonian-speaking YouTubers. Altogether, we analysed videos from eight content creators, each well-known among high-school-aged viewers who post regular videos in Estonian. The dataset consists of videos (or video excerpts) in which we look into the proportional share of English words or phrases...

The Estonian indefinite pronouns keegi ‘someone’ and miski ‘something’ are distinguished by being able to refer to animate or inanimate entities, respectively. However, in certain Estonian dialects, keegi is used to refer to inanimate entities as well. The aim of this paper is to describe the functions and use of keegi based on the data in the Corp...

This article is a study in the use of irrealis in complementation in the two Baltic languages, Lithuanian and Latvian, and in two Fennic languages, Estonian and Finnish. Four domains of complementation are singled out: propositional, desiderative, apprehensional and evaluative. All investigated languages show limited use of irrealis in the proposit...

Seto is an exceptional language in the Uralic family due to its systematic use of postverbal negation, although preverbal and double negation marking are also used. Postverbal negation is still the most frequent and unmarked pattern occurring in about 74% of negative clauses in Seto. This paper analyzes variation between pre- and postverbal negatio...

This paper explores referential features of deleted actors in impersonal passive and impersonal constructions in three languages: Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian. Though cross-linguistically passive or impersonal verb forms of intransitive verbs are generally associated with indefinite human agency, our study shows that this correlation is not abs...

The article deals with a constructional idiom attested in both Baltic languages as well as in the neighbouring Slavonic and Fennic languages and in Yiddish, containing as its central component what is argued to be an insubordinated imperatival concessive clause and characterising a situation by hyperbolically describing the consequences conceivably...

This paper is the first empirical study of the construction  (and V ("he took and left" = 'he left suddenly, unexpectedly') in contemporary Latvian and Lithu-anian, carried out on a large sample of corpus data. The results obtained for Baltic are compared with Slavic (Polish, Russian) and Finnic (Estonian, Finnish) data from comparable corpora....

The present paper examines the use of two compound tenses – perfect and pluperfect – in Estonian. Perfect and pluperfect have emerged due to the influence of the Baltic and Germanic languages and are used frequently in Estonian. How-ever, while looking at the usage frequency derived from the Corpus of Estonian Dialects, dialect areas display remark...

Arvioitu teos: Maximilian Murmann: Inchoative emotion verbs in Finnish. Argument structures and collexemes. Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies. University of Helsinki. 196 s. ja liitteet 17 s. isbn 978-951-51-4191-0. Väitöskirjan tiivistelmä on luettavissa osoitteessa https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/233975

The article contributes new data and findings to the growing field of corpus-based dialect syntax research. The focus of the paper is on variation in ‘need’-constructions ( tarvis / vaja olema + nominal complement/infinitive ‘need to’) based on the corpus of Estonian dialects. Our purpose was to demonstrate the complex nature of syntactic variation...

This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English ‘as (a child)’. It focuses on the distribution of the essive in contemporary Uralic languages with special attention to the opposition between permanent and impermanent state. The volume presents large sets of new data and insights into the use...

Nominative-partitive alternation in subject marking in Estonian occurs mainly in existentials and related constructions. The paper measures the overall frequency of use of partitive subjects (PS) in Estonian dialects to explore whether differences are found, which can be explained by language contacts. Second, it provides an overview of constructio...

In this paper, we tackle the twin issues of obligatoriness of semantic arguments and variation in their expression through a study of Estonian constructions denoting need. The variation under investigation consists in the choice of case-marking, between adessive and allative case, as well as the option to omit the oblique argument. We extracted and...

This paper tackles diachronic changes in the choice of elative or adessive case for marking the agent in Estonian periphrastic passive constructions in two time periods. In 1800-1850, the main agent-marking device was the elative case, whereas in the 1990s the elative was limited to inanimate actors, and the use of the adessive had increased consid...

In classical accounts of Finnish and Estonian grammar, the possibility of using the so-called partitive subject has been one definitional criterion for the category of existential clauses. However, in both languages there are other syntactic clause types (or constructions) with an NP that resembles the partitive subject to am lesser or a greater ex...

This article investigates variation in constructions expressing need in Estonian, based on material from the Corpus of Spoken Estonian, the 1990s Fiction Subcorpus of Written Estonian, and the Estonian Dialect Corpus. The predicates included in the study, vaja/tarvis olema 'need', form two basic constructions: one takes a nominal complement and exp...

Semantilised rollid väljendavad semantilisi suhteid entiteetide ja sündmuste vahel ning on keeleteaduses laialt kasutatav vahend lause predikaadi ja tema argumentide omavaheliste suhete selgitamiseks semantilisel tasandil. Sellegipoolest ei ole keeleteaduses välja kujunenud ühest arusaama sellest, kui palju ja millised semantilised rollid on keele...

The Estonian subdialect Kihnu, Latvian and Kuronian Livonian share a type of interrogative containing morphemes whose primary function is to mark 3rd person imperatives. This construction is not attested in other Estonian dialects or in Standard Estonian, other than in some petrified idioms. In Kihnu and Latvian, the question type is used for delib...

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...

.Käesolevas artiklis vaadeldakse nimetavas käändes pronoomeni isekasutamist internetifoorumites, kus on märkimisväärselt palju näiteid isekasutustest ilma lähtevormita, s.t ilma nimi- või asesõnata, millele ise viitab. Artikli põhiküsimuseks on, kas ise-t kasutataksegi süstemaatiliselt isikulise pronoomeni asemel lause subjektina.Täpsemalt uurime,...

Proceedings of the NODALIDA 2009 workshop Constraint Grammar and robust parsing. Editors: Eckhard Bick, Kristin Hagen, Kaili Müürisep and Trond Trosterud. NEALT Proceedings Series, Vol. 8 (2009), 22-29. © 2009 The editors and contributors. Published by Northern European Association for Language Technology (NEALT) http://omilia.uio.no/nealt . Electr...

Power spectrum analysis of myoelectric signals has been used to measure the propagation velocity in a large number of voluntary action potentials in biceps and brachioradialis muscles of normal children, 0-20 years old. The method used can be applied to both single motor units signals and interference electromyogram. From measurements of single mot...

Spectrum analysis of EMG can be done in two ways. One is to use some spectral parameter as the output quantity — the most common technique — and the other is to use mathematical modelling with identification of parameters having a clear physiological meaning. In this communication, we will demonstrate applications covering both aspects of spectral...

Spectrum analysis of EMG has gained interest during the past decades due to its quantitative nature. Much of the interest can also be traced back to the greater availability of mini-and microcomputers which enable more elaborate analysis.

BeSt programmi toetusel loodud e-kursus "Eesti keele korpuste praktika" on mõeldud Tartu Ülikooli eesti keele eriala magistrandidele (aine FLEE02.100) ning see koondab andmeid eesti keele korpuste, nende eripärade ja kasutamisvõimaluste kohta keeleuurija jaoks. Kursus keskendub peamiselt veebis kasutatavate korpuste koostamispõhimõtete tutvustamise...