Members

Liina Lindström, PhD

Associated Professor in Estonian, Senior Research Fellow in Estonian Language

My main research interests include syntax, dialectology, dialect syntax, language variation and change, and language contacts.

Contact: email: liina (dot) lindstrom (at) ut (dot) ee; address: Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu, Jakobi 2-443, 51014 Tartu, Estonia

Kristel Uiboaed, PhD

Research Fellow of Quantitative Linguistics

My main research belongs to the domains of corpus linguistics, quantitative methods in linguistics and language variation. I am especially interested in the variation of verbal constructions. I also take interest in visualization of linguistic data and its geographical distribution.

Contact: email: kristel (dot) uiboaed (at) ut (dot) ee; address: Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu, Jakobi 2-430, 51014 Tartu, Estonia

Helen Plado, PhD

Lecturer in Estonian Language, Research Fellow in Estonian Language

My main research interests are Estonian syntax, complex sentences, adverbial clauses, and grammaticalization.

Contact: email: helen (dot) plado (at) ut (dot) ee; address: Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu, Jakobi 2-426, 51014 Tartu, Estonia

Maarja-Liisa Pilvik, doctoral student

Junior Research Fellow of Applied Dialectology

In my dissertation, I study action nominal constructions with the suffix -mine (laulmine ‘singing’) and their nominal and verbal properties in Estonian dialects and in the Finnic language continuum in general. I am particularly interested in the modal and aspectual features of such constructions, but also in the structure, function and spread of -mine forms in spoken spontaneous language in comparison to written language.

Contact: email: maarja-liisa (dot) pilvik (at) ut (dot) ee; address: Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu, Jakobi 2-430, 51014 Tartu, Estonia

Mirjam Ruutma, doctoral student

I am focused on studying adpositions in Estonian dialects. In my master’s studies, my main interest lay in ambipositions (i.e. adpositions that can occur as both pre- and postpositions), but in my dissertation, I am looking at the relationship between analytic adpositional phrases and the corresponding synthetic case forms in dialects. I am interested in their geographical distribution and intra- and extralinguistic factors, that influence the choice between the two parallel constructions.

Contact: email: mirjam (dot) ruutma (at) ut (dot) ee; address: Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu, Jakobi 2-430, 51014 Tartu, Estonia.