Heete Sahkai

List of John Benjamins publications in which Heete Sahkai is involved.

Journal

Journal of Uralic Linguistics

Edited by Anders Holmberg and Balázs Surányi

ISSN 2772-3720 | E‑ISSN 2772‑3739

Article

Holmberg, Anders, Heete Sahkai and Anne Tamm 2025 Verb second in Estonian and the syntax-prosody relation Journal of Uralic Linguistics 4:2, pp. 217–268 | Article

Estonian declarative main clauses display a relatively strict verb-second (V2) order, resembling Germanic V2. However, two prosody-conditioned exceptions distinguish Estonian from Germanic: verb-third occurs with weak proforms in the ‘EPP-position’ and with nuclear-stressed finite verbs. We… read more