University of Tartu

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with University of Tartu*

First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages

EditorMinna Kirjavainen, Ágnes Lukács & Virve-Anneli Vihman

Subjects Language acquisition | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages

[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] 2025. | edited volume

Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation

EditorVasso Giannakopoulou & Elin Sütiste

Subjects Translation Studies

[Benjamins Translation Library, 167] 2025. | edited volume

(Inter)subjectivity across registers of Estonian: Special issue of the Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 (2024)

EditorHelle Metslang, Tiit Hennoste & Külli Habicht

Subjects Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages

[Journal of Uralic Linguistics, 3:2] 2024. v, 178 pp. | special issue

Handbook of Translation Studies

Edited by Yves Gambier & Luc van Doorslaer

Subjects Interpreting | Terminology | Translation Studies

[Handbook of Translation Studies, 5] 2021. | reference work

Mind Ascribed: An elaboration and defence of interpretivism

Bruno Mölder

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Consciousness research | Philosophy

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 80] 2010. xii, 293 pp. | monograph

Tragel, Ilona 2026 Drawing the direction of Estonian verbs: From temporality to emotion and beyond

Keywords: conceptual metaphor | free-form drawing experiment | inherent temporality

In: Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita & Mario Brdar (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 81] pp. 176–196

Moreno Tovar, Manuel 2026 Tackling controversial elements in intralingual translation: A case study of Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Keywords: controversy | controversia | The Picture of Dorian Gray | Oscar Wilde | intralingual translation | graded readers | homoeroticism | misogyny | anti-Semitism | manipulation | agents of translation | paratexts | young audiences | mitigation | risk | translator’s ethics

In: Intralingual Translation: Beyond language and text, Karas, Hilla & Hava Bat-Zeev Shyldkrot (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 168] pp. 71–93

Pajusalu, Renate, Maria Reile & Piia Taremaa 2026 The role of demonstrative determiners in temporal reference

Keywords: corpus study | Estonian | proximal and distal demonstratives | time

In: Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita & Mario Brdar (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 81] pp. 442–468

Li, Yingying, Siqi Lyu & Xianyao Hu 2026 Child and adult readers’ processing of foreignized elements in translated Chinese picture books: An eye-tracking study

Keywords: translated children’s picture books | domestication | foreignization | reading comprehension | eye-tracking

Target 38:2 pp. 260–295 | article

Kaldjärv, Klaarika 2025 The (dis)appearance of Don Juan in Tallinn: Erosion of a myth in a Soviet Estonian film

Keywords: Don Juan | Soviet Estonian film | adaptation | narrative proliferation | intermedial transposition

In: Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation, Giannakopoulou, Vasso & Elin Sütiste (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 167] pp. 55–71

Vihman, Virve-Anneli, Minna Kirjavainen & Ágnes Lukács 2025 First language acquisition in Finno-Ugric languages: Introduction to the volume

In: First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages, Kirjavainen, Minna, Ágnes Lukács & Virve-Anneli Vihman (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] pp. 1–17

Tulviste, Tiia & Ada Urm 2025 Lexical development in Estonian

Keywords: child language | early vocabulary development | receptive vocabulary | productive vocabulary | communicative developmental inventories (CDIs) | Estonian

In: First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages, Kirjavainen, Minna, Ágnes Lukács & Virve-Anneli Vihman (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] pp. 58–80

Giannakopoulou, Vasso & Elin Sütiste 2025 Preface

In: Transmedia in Translation and Transculturation, Giannakopoulou, Vasso & Elin Sütiste (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 167] pp. vii–xii

Vihman, Virve-Anneli & Reili Argus 2025 The acquisition of Estonian morphology and syntax

Keywords: first language acquisition | morphosyntactic development | Estonian | inflectional morphology | object marking | voice | clause types | complex clauses

In: First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages, Kirjavainen, Minna, Ágnes Lukács & Virve-Anneli Vihman (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] p. 81

Vihman, Marilyn, Liis Themas & Marju Lahtein-Kursa 2025 The acquisition of Estonian phonology

Keywords: Estonian | phonological development | prosodic structure | quantity contrast | template

In: First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages, Kirjavainen, Minna, Ágnes Lukács & Virve-Anneli Vihman (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] pp. 18–57

Teptiuk, Denys 2026 Self-quotations of solitude speech in online Estonian, Finnish, and Hungarian

Keywords: egocentric speech | internet communications | response cries | self-quotations | Uralic

International Journal of Language and Culture 12:1 p. 89 | article

Mertens, Irmak 2024 Review of Translation and Contemporary Art: Transdisciplinary Encounters by María Carmen África Vidal Claramonte (2022)

Translation in Society 3:2 pp. 255–262 | book review | open access

Metslang, Helle, Külli Habicht, Tiit Hennoste, Kirsi Laanesoo-Kalk, Külli Prillop, Andriela Rääbis & Carl Eric Simmul 2024 (Inter)subjectivity in Estonian registers

Keywords: subjectivity | intersubjectivity | registers | particles | discourse markers | modal verbs | Estonian

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 pp. 119–157 | introduction | open access

Hennoste, Tiit, Külli Prillop, Külli Habicht, Helle Metslang, Kirsi Laanesoo-Kalk, David Ogren, Liina Pärismaa, Elen Pärt, Andra Rumm, Andriela Rääbis & Carl Eric Simmul 2024 Downtoners and intensifiers in different registers: The case of Estonian

Keywords: pragmatic particles | downtoners | intensifiers | registers | spoken interaction | internet language | printed texts | situational features | Estonian

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 pp. 158–185 | article

Habicht, Külli, Külli Prillop & Carl Eric Simmul 2024 From certainty to uncertainty: The pragmaticalisation of the Estonian epistemic particles vist ‘perhaps, probably’ and kindlasti ‘definitely, certainly’

Keywords: pragmaticalisation | corpus-pragmatics | epistemic particles | probability | (inter)subjectivity | written language | Estonian

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 pp. 232–264 | article

Rääbis, Andriela 2024 Functions of the particle üldse ‘at all’ in questions in Estonian everyday conversations

Keywords: question | particle | intensifier | everyday conversation | Estonian

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 pp. 209–231 | article

Laanesoo-Kalk, Kirsi 2024 Functions of the particles tõesti ‘really’ and tõepoolest ‘indeed’ in the spoken, online and printed registers of Estonian

Keywords: pragmatic particles | intensifiers | Estonian | everyday conversations | online news comments | academic prose | confirmation

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 pp. 186–208 | article

Lõo, Kaidi, Raymond Bertram & Victor Kuperman 2025 Long-lag morphological priming and inflectional paradigm size effects in Estonian and Finnish text reading

Keywords: reading | eye-tracking | morphological processing | morphological priming | Estonian | Finnish | inflectional paradigms

The Mental Lexicon 19:2 pp. 253–284 | article

Prillop, Külli, Tiit Hennoste & Helle Metslang 2024 Pragmatic particles as distinguishing features of registers

Keywords: particles | frequency | differentiators | spoken language | internet language | printed texts | Estonian

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 pp. 265–296 | article

Loogus, Terje & Jaanika Anderson 2024 Communication with international visitors: Interlingual translation practice in the University of Tartu Museum

Keywords: museum translation | translation in museums | interlingual translation | communication with visitors | traduction muséale | traduction dans les musées | traduction interlinguistique | communication avec les visiteurs

Babel 70:5 pp. 658–681 | article

Mertens, Irmak & Sophie Decroupet 2024 Conceptualizing museum translation: Cultural translation, interlingual processes and other perspectives

Keywords: museum translation | cultural translation | conceptualization | semiosphere | museum studies | traduction muséale | traduction culturelle | conceptualisation | sémiosphère | muséologie

Babel 70:5 pp. 593–614 | introduction | open access

Spiessens, Anneleen & Luc van Doorslaer 2024 The ethnographic museum as a sensitive translation: The case of the AfricaMuseum in Belgium

Keywords: ethnographic museum | decolonization | sensitive text | risk mitigation | cultural translation | intersemiotic translation | interlingual translation | Musée ethnographique décolonisation | texte sensible | risk mitigation | traduction culturelle | traduction intersémiotique | traduction interlinguistique

Babel 70:5 pp. 727–758 | article

Lyu, Siqi, Jung-Yueh Tu & Chien-Jer Charles Lin 2024 Structural position affects topic transition: An eye-tracking study

Keywords: topicality | topic shift | concession | double-subject construction

Language and Linguistics 25:1 pp. 56–79 | article | open access

Hennoste, Tiit, Andriela Rääbis, Andra Rumm & Kirsi Laanesoo 2023 The division of labor between the particles jah and jaa ‘yes’ as responses to requests for confirmation in Estonian

Keywords: polar question | confirmation | response particles | Estonian | ordinary conversation

In: Responding to Polar Questions across Languages and Contexts, Bolden, Galina B., John Heritage & Marja-Leena Sorjonen (eds.) [Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 35] pp. 210–238

Soler, Josep & Kerttu Rozenvalde 2023 Linguistic domination or discrimination?: Local and international academic staff contest the (in)justice of English as the language of international academic mobility

Keywords: English-medium instruction (EMI) | international mobility | linguistic justice | linguistic domination | linguistic discrimination | stakeholders’ interests

Journal of English-Medium Instruction 3:1 pp. 11–29 | article | open access

Niinemägi, Merit 2023 Variation and change in the Aanaar Saami conditional perfect

Keywords: Aanaar Saami | conditional perfect | conditional mood | morphosyntactic variation | free variation | language change | Saami

In: Free Variation in Grammar: Empirical and theoretical approaches to optionality in grammar, Kopf, Kristin & Thilo Weber (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 234] pp. 168–201 | open access

Keevallik, Leelo & Marri Amon 2023 Seeing is believing: The multisensorial emergence of the Estonian näed ‘you see’ as an evidential

Keywords: verbs of seeing | perception verbs | multisensorial interaction | emergent grammar | evidentiality | Estonian

Interactional Linguistics 4:1 pp. 38–67 | article | open access

Raud, Nina & Olga Orehhova 2022 From EFL teacher to CLIL teacher in Estonia: Designing and implementing an in-service CLIL teacher training course for EFL teachers

Keywords: content and language integrated learning | CLIL teacher training | continuing professional development | curriculum design | in-service teacher training

Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education 11:1 pp. 109–136 | article

Lõo, Kaidi, Abigail Toth, Figen Karaca & Juhani Järvikivi 2022 Morphological processing is gradient not discrete in L1 and L2 English masked priming

Keywords: morphological processing | masked priming | L1 processing | L2 processing | quantile regression

The Mental Lexicon 17:1 p. 76 | article | open access

Metslang, Helle & Külli Habicht 2022 Partitive, genitive or nominative?: Estonian DOM in written use through centuries

Keywords: object | partitive | nominative | genitive | variation | written language | interlanguage | sociohistory | Estonian

Linguistic Variation 23:1 pp. 157–189 | article

Norvik, Miina, Yingqi Jing, Michael Dunn, Robert Forkel, Terhi Honkola, Gerson Klumpp, Richard Kowalik, Helle Metslang, Karl Pajusalu, Minerva Piha, Eva Saar, Sirkka Saarinen & Outi Vesakoski 2022 Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset

Keywords: Uralic languages | typology | areal linguistics | syntax | morphology | phonology | quantitative linguistics

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:1 pp. 4–42 | article | open access

van Doorslaer, Luc & Jack McMartin 2022 Where translation studies and the social meet: Setting the scene for ‘Translation in Society’

Keywords: cultural turn | sociological turn | conceptualization | situatedness | social sciences | translator studies | sociology | power | networks

Translation in Society 1:1 pp. 1–14 | article

Wilbur, Joshua & Michael Rießler 2022 Working with language data: Practical, technical and scientific considerations

In: Handbook of Pragmatics: 25th Annual Installment, Brisard, Frank, Sigurd D’hondt, Pedro Gras & Mieke Vandenbroucke (eds.) [Handbook of Pragmatics, 25] p. 3

Madisson, Mari-Liis & Andreas Ventsel 2022 From strategic depiction of conspiracies to conspiracy theories: RT’s and Sputnik’s representations of coronavirus infodemic

Keywords: strategic narratives | conspiracy theory | Model Reader | COVID-19 infodemic

In: Conspiracy theory discourses, Demata, Massimiliano, Virginia Zorzi & Angela Zottola (eds.) [Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 98] pp. 443–464

Taremaa, Piia & Anetta Kopecka 2022 Manner of motion in Estonian: A descriptive account of speed

Keywords: speed | manner of motion | verbs | modifiers | corpus analysis | Estonian

Studies in Language 47:1 pp. 32–78 | article | open access

Lindén, Krister, Jyrki Niemi, Lars Borin, Markus Forsberg, Bolette S. Pedersen, Sanni Nimb, Heili Orav, Neeme Kahusk & Kadri Vider 2021 A multilingual net of lexical resources

In: The Swedish FrameNet++: Harmonization, integration, method development and practical language technology applications, Dannélls, Dana, Lars Borin & Karin Friberg Heppin (eds.) [Natural Language Processing, 14] pp. 123–138 | open access

Teptiuk, Denys 2021 Quotative indexes in Permic: Between the original strategies and Russian

Keywords: quotative index | new quotative | Permic | language contact Russian–Permic | matter replication | pattern replication

In: Language contact in the territory of the former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana & Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] pp. 217–258

Loogus, Terje & Luc van Doorslaer 2021 Assisting translations in border crossing: An analysis of the Traducta translation grants in Estonia

Keywords: translation policy | translation flows | sociology of translation | export of literature | centre/periphery

Translation Spaces 10:1 pp. 161–180 | article

Lindström, Liina, Maarja-Liisa Pilvik & Helen Plado 2021 Variation in negation in Seto

Keywords: standard negation | word order | language variation | Uralic languages | South Estonian Seto

Studies in Language 45:3 pp. 557–597 | article

Treikelder, Anu 2020 Les temps verbaux et l’ancrage énonciatif en français et en estonien: L’exemple de L’Étranger d’Albert Camus et de sa traduction

Keywords: temporal reference | enunciation | translation | Estonian | French

In: The expression of Tense, Aspect, Modality and Evidentiality in Albert Camus’s L’Étranger and its translations: An empirical study, Corre, Eric, Danh Thành Do-Hurinville & Huy Linh Dao (eds.) [Lingvisticæ Investigationes Supplementa, 35] pp. 203–220

Vihman, Virve-Anneli, Anna Theakston & Elena Lieven 2020 Acquisition of symmetrical and asymmetrical Differential Object Marking in Estonian

Keywords: child language | Estonian | morphological complexity | case marking | case omission

In: The Acquisition of Differential Object Marking, Mardale, Alexandru & Silvina Montrul (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 26] pp. 21–49

Proos, Mariann 2019 Polysemy of the Estonian perception verb nägema ‘to see’

Keywords: Estonian | perception verbs | polysemy | sorting task | behavioural profile

In: Perception Metaphors, Speed, Laura J., Carolyn O’Meara, Lila San Roque & Asifa Majid (eds.) [Converging Evidence in Language and Communication Research, 19] pp. 231–252

van Doorslaer, Luc 2018 Federico Italiano. Translation and Geography

Target 30:3 pp. 474–478 | book review

Nelson, Diane & Virve-Anneli Vihman 2018 Bringing the toys to life: Animacy, reference, and anthropomorphism in Toy Story

Keywords: animacy | anthropomorphism | referential expressions | children’s fiction | film narrative

International Journal of Language and Culture 5:2 pp. 203–223 | article

Hansson, Sten 2017 Anticipative strategies of blame avoidance in government: The case of communication guidelines

Keywords: blame avoidance | government communication | habitus | discursive strategy | framing | UK government | civil service | public relations | critical discourse analysis | professional identity

Journal of Language and Politics 16:2 pp. 219–241 | article

Marais, Kobus & Kalevi Kull 2016 Biosemiotics and translation studies: Challenging ‘translation’

Keywords: biosemiotics | Peirce | semiotics | semio-translation | translation

In: Border Crossings: Translation Studies and other disciplines, Gambier, Yves & Luc van Doorslaer (eds.) [Benjamins Translation Library, 126] pp. 169–188

Põiklik, Pille 2016 People’s right to keep and bear arms: Arguments on the meaning of the Second Amendment to the US Constitution in District of Columbia v. Heller

Keywords: critical discourse analysis | US Supreme Court | recontextualisation | practical reasoning | argumentation theory | gun rights | Second Amendment

Journal of Language and Politics 15:2 pp. 173–192 | article

Belova, Oksana 2017 The challenge of reset : A discourse analysis of Barack Obama’s construction of Russia in 2009–12

Keywords: Barack Obama | U.S. – Russian relations | Russia | Laclau and Mouffe’s discourse theory | critical discourse analysis | indexicality | assumptions

Journal of Language and Politics 15:6 pp. 748–767 | article

Hamari, Arja & Niina Aasmäe 2015 Negation in Erzya

In: Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm & Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 108] pp. 293–324

Metslang, Helle, Karl Pajusalu & Tiit-Rein Viitso 2015 Negation in Livonian

In: Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm & Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 108] pp. 433–456

Aru, Jaan, Talis Bachmann, Wolf Singer & Lucia Melloni 2015 On why the unconscious prerequisites and consequences of consciousness might derail us from unraveling the neural correlates of consciousness

In: The Constitution of Phenomenal Consciousness: Toward a science and theory, Miller, Steven M. (ed.) [Advances in Consciousness Research, 92] pp. 205–225

Tragel, Ilona, Külli Habicht & Piret Piiroja 2015 Rise and fall of the TAKE-future in written Estonian

In: Causation, Permission, and Transfer: Argument realisation in GET, TAKE, PUT, GIVE and LET verbs, Nolan, Brian, Gudrun Rawoens & Elke Diedrichsen (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 167] pp. 353–383

Jokela, Hanna & Helen Plado 2015 Subjects under generic conditions: Implied subjects in Finnish and Estonian if-clauses

In: Subjects in Constructions – Canonical and Non-Canonical, Helasvuo, Marja-Liisa & Tuomas Huumo (eds.) [Constructional Approaches to Language, 16] pp. 73–97

Ivanovich Rozhanskiy, Fedor 2016 Two semantic patterns of reduplication: Iconicity revisited

Keywords: reduplication | semantics | typology | iconicity

Studies in Language 39:4 p. 992 | article

Poopuu, Birgit 2015 Telling and acting identity: The discursive construction of the EU’s common security and defence policy identity

Keywords: CSDP identity | global “enterprise” | of peacebuilding | process of becoming | telling and acting | operation Artemis

Journal of Language and Politics 14:1 pp. 134–153 | article

Klavan, Jane 2014 A multifactorial corpus analysis of grammatical synonymy: The Estonian adessive and adposition peal ‘on’

Keywords: adpositional construction | case construction | Finno-Ugric languages | logistic regression

In: Corpus Methods for Semantics: Quantitative studies in polysemy and synonymy, Glynn, Dylan & Justyna A. Robinson (eds.) [Human Cognitive Processing: Cognitive Foundations of Language Structure and Use, 43] pp. 253–278

Küngas, Annika 2014 Analyzing polysemy in Estonian: Täpselt ‘exactly, precisely’ − a word with many faces

In: Diachronic Corpus Pragmatics, Taavitsainen, Irma, Andreas H. Jucker & Jukka Tuominen (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 243] pp. 107–132

Lindström, Liina 2013 Between Finnic and Indo-European: Variation and change in the Estonian experiencer-object construction

In: The Diachronic Typology of Non-Canonical Subjects, Seržant, Ilja A. & Leonid Kulikov (eds.) [Studies in Language Companion Series, 140] pp. 139–162

Valdmets, Annika 2013 Modal particles, discourse markers, 
and adverbs with lt-suffix in Estonian

In: Discourse Markers and Modal Particles: Categorization and description, Degand, Liesbeth, Bert Cornillie & Paola Pietrandrea (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 234] pp. 107–132

Vihman, Marilyn & Virve-Anneli Vihman 2011 From first words to segments: A case study in phonological development

In: Experience, Variation and Generalization: Learning a first language, Arnon, Inbal & Eve V. Clark (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 7] pp. 109–134

Klavan, Jane, Kaisa Kesküla & Laura Ojava 2011 The division of labour between synonymous locative cases and adpositions: The Estonian adessive and the adposition peal ‘on’

In: Case, Animacy and Semantic Roles, Kittilä, Seppo, Katja Västi & Jussi Ylikoski (eds.) [Typological Studies in Language, 99] pp. 111–134

Sutrop, Urmas 2011 Towards a semiotic theory of basic colour terms and the semiotics of Juri Lotman

In: New Directions in Colour Studies, Biggam, Carole P., Carole Hough, Christian Kay & David R. Simmons (eds.)  pp. 39–48

Ehala, Martin 2011 The diffusion of impositional innovations in the Estonian object-marking system

Keywords: language contact | substrate | language change | morphosyntax | Estonian | fractals | self-organisation

Diachronica 28:3 pp. 324–344 | article

van der Auwera, Johan, Petar Kehayov & Alice Vittrant 2009 Acquisitive modals

In: Cross-linguistic Semantics of Tense, Aspect, and Modality, Hogeweg, Lotte, Helen de Hoop & Andrej L. Malchukov (eds.) [Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 148] pp. 271–302

Hennoste, T., Mare Koit, T. Roosmaa & M. Saluveer 1998 Structure and Usage of the Tartu University Corpus of Written Estonian

Keywords: Using a Corpus | Tagging | Designing | Corpora

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 3:2 pp. 279–304 | article

Dulichenko, Aleksandr D. 1988 Esperanto: A Unique Model for General Linguistics

Language Problems and Language Planning 12:2 pp. 148–151 | other

Bernhardt, Mariann & Denys Teptiuk Case variation in quantifier constructions in the Mordvinic languages

Keywords: quantifiers | Erzya | Moksha | case variation | corpus investigation

Journal of Uralic Linguistics | Online First Publication, 35 pp. | article

Rozhanskiy, Fedor & Elena Markus Soikkola Ingrian olla ‘to be’: Competition of morphological forms in the context of number agreement

Keywords: agreement | number | Ingrian language | impersonal forms | plurality

Journal of Uralic Linguistics | Online First Publication, 29 pp. | article

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.