Ilona Tragel

List of John Benjamins publications for which Ilona Tragel plays a role.

Articles

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
Tragel, Ilona, Külli Habicht and Piret Piiroja 2015 Rise and fall of the TAKE-future in written EstonianCausation, 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
Pajusalu, Renate and Ilona Tragel 2007 13. Word and construction as units of categorization: The case of change predicates in EstonianMental States: Volume 2: Language and cognitive structure, Schalley, Andrea C. and Drew Khlentzos (eds.), pp. 289–310 | Article