Ilona Tragel
List of John Benjamins publications in which Ilona Tragel is involved.
2026 Chapter 6. Drawing the direction of Estonian verbs: From temporality to emotion and beyond Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 176–196 | Chapter
In this chapter, the findings of a free-form drawing task conducted with 21 native speakers of Estonian are presented. The subjects were asked to draw and simultaneously verbalize their schematic representations of 24 Estonian verbs. For each drawing, a set of features was manually annotated,… read more
2017 Serial verb constructions in Estonian Argument Realisation in Complex Predicates and Complex Events: Verb-verb constructions at the syntax-semantic interface, Nolan, Brian and Elke Diedrichsen (eds.), pp. 169–190 | Article
The Estonian serial verb construction (SVC) consists of two or more adjacent verbs with concordant grammatical marking in the same clause: cf. Lähe-n vaata-n kohe. ‘go-1SG look-1SG now’ ‘I’ll go look now’. This type of monoclausal SVCs exists in Estonian and in some Finno-Ugric languages, at least… read more
2015 Rise and fall of the TAKE-future in written Estonian Causation, Permission, and Transfer: Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs, Nolan, Brian, Gudrun Rawoens and Elke Diedrichsen (eds.), pp. 353–383 | Article
The paper presents an overview of the development of the Estonian take + Vinf1 construction from runic songs to modern Estonian, with an emphasis on the study of Old Written Estonian. Proceeding from construction grammar, grammaticalization theory and statistical corpus analysis we discuss three… read more
2007 13. Word and construction as units of categorization: The case of change predicates in Estonian Mental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure, Schalley, Andrea C. and Drew Khlentzos (eds.), pp. 289–310 | Article