Pre-conference programme

8-9 July 2017

We are planning a two-day language tutorial prior to the conference. Participants will have a choice between two Estonian language courses (please note that these lessons run in parallel sessions):

Introduction to practical Estonian (regular 40 EUR, students 25 EUR)

Room Jakobi 2 – 428

Time July 8 (Sat):14-16, 16-18; July 9 (Sun):10-12, 12-14, 15-17

The course takes place on Saturday and Sunday (8-9 July), 10 hours altogether.

Come and learn to

• greet and say good bye
• pronounce hauaööõudused and distinguish between three vowel and consonant lengths
• order a piece of cake and a coffee in the singular nominative but two pieces of cake and two coffees in the singular partitive
• ask and answer basic questions related to university and conference -life
• conjugate some basic verbs and forget about personal endings in negative sentences
• ponder about the roots and contacts of Estonian

Instructor: Miina Norvik (PhD in the Finnic languages). Miina has 5 years of experience with teaching Estonian to foreigners. She has held courses in the summer university as well as the local language center at the University of Tartu.

Estonian from a typological perspective (regular 40 EUR, students 25 EUR)

The course takes place on Saturday and Sunday (8-9 July), 10 hours altogether.

Room Jakobi 2 – 438

Time July 8 (Sat):14-16, 16-18; July 9 (Sun):10-12, 12-14, 15-17

Most typologically challenging aspects of Estonian covered by Estonian linguists from a cognitive-functional perspective. Some of the topics covered are: 

• stem alternations
• declinations and conjugations
• function nuances of case suffixes and adpositions
• basic argument structure constructions
• valency changing constructions
• word order

Instructors: Anni Jürine, Jane Klavan, Liina Lindström, Ilona Tragel, Virve-Anneli Vihman