Helen Plado
List of John Benjamins publications in which Helen Plado is involved.
Articles
2021 Variation in negation in Seto Postverbal negation, Krasnoukhova, Olga, Johan van der Auwera and Mily Crevels (eds.), pp. 557–597 | Article
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… read more
2015 Subjects under generic conditions: Implied subjects in Finnish and Estonian if-clauses Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa and Tuomas Huumo (eds.), pp. 73–97 | Article
The chapter discusses implied subjects creating open or generic reference in
Finnish and Estonian if-clauses from a contrastive perspective. We focus on the
so-called zero person constructions, passives/impersonals, and the Estonian
da-infinitive which acts as a predicate of an if-clause. These… read more
2014 Development of the Estonian conjunction kuna ‘while; because’ during the 20th century Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives, Visapää, Laura, Jyrki Kalliokoski and Helena Sorva (eds.), pp. 269–286 | Article
The change from temporal to cause is one of the well-known grammaticalization paths. This article analyses the change in the Estonian conjunction kuna, ‘while; as, because’ from temporal to causal one as well as the attitude of the Estonian language planners towards this change. This change has… read more