Helle Metslang
List of John Benjamins publications for which Helle Metslang plays a role.
Articles
2023 Partitive, genitive or nominative? Estonian DOM in written use through centuries Partitives cross-linguistically: Dimensions of variation, Luraghi, Silvia and Petra Sleeman (eds.), pp. 157–189 | Article
The object has two variants in Estonian: partial object (in partitive, the functionally unmarked variant) and total object (in genitive or nominative). We examine the variation in object case in Estonian texts from the 17th to the 20th century, focusing on the 19th century and regarding this… read more
2022 Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:1, pp. 4–42 | Article
This paper presents the Uralic Areal Typology Online (UraTyp 1.0), a typological dataset of 35 Uralic languages and a total of 360 features, mainly covering the levels of morphology, syntax, and phonology. The features belong to two different datasets: 195 features’ definitions originate from… read more
2017 Chapter 3. The essive in Estonian Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State, Groot, Casper de (ed.), pp. 57–90 | Chapter
This chapter presents an empirical study of the distribution of the essive marker in Standard Estonian and Estonian dialects. The use of the essive has changed considerably in Estonian: it almost vanished from North Estonian but was revived in the 19th century. In South Estonian, the essive ending… read more
2015 Negation in Livonian Negation in Uralic Languages, Miestamo, Matti, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), pp. 433–456 | Article
The paper gives an overview of negation in Livonian. The study is based on fieldwork data and previous research. Livonian has negation markers of three types: (1) auxiliaries, äb in the indicative and conditional present, iz in the indicative past, and alā in the imperative and the jussive; (2)… read more
2010 Mood in Estonian Mood in the Languages of Europe, Rothstein, Björn and Rolf Thieroff (eds.), pp. 528–550 | Article
2006 Tense and Evidentiality in Estonian Topics in Subjectification and Modalization, Cornillie, Bert and Nicole Delbecque (eds.), pp. 125–136 | Article
2001 On the developments of the Estonian aspect: The verbal particle ära Circum-Baltic Languages: Volume 2: Grammar and Typology, Dahl, Östen and Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), pp. 443–479 | Article