Diphthongs and triphthongs in the Kihnu variety of Estonian

A Baltic German novel and its author

Is Google a mono- or disyllabic word in Estonian?

Herder on language and literature

A follow-up of the latest symposium on Baltic literary culture

Les voyageurs francophones en Estonie des origines à 1990

Descriptions of the morphosyntactic variation of ambipositions by means of quantitative profiles

Kaplinski’s far-away spaces

The psychoanalytical Unt

Estonian dialects in the mirror of the last Estonian census

In exile and in the shadows

August Pihlak, the king of sonnets

Long strides in Estonian linguistics

A written interview with Mati Erelt

Funktionsweisen des literarischen Feldes am Beispiel der deutschen Rezeption von Jaan Kross

The Estonian language in the winds of immigration (I)

A demographic retrospective on 1989–2011 and a look forward

On the autonomy of bodily present in the aesthetics of literary realism

The novel contests of this millennium as an important springboard

Images of afterlife in traditional texts

From event to text

The Estonian language in the winds of immigration (II)

A demographic retrospective on 1989–2011 and a look forward

The initial letter of historical events – a retrospect

Udo Uibo: A linguist with a bohemian work style

‘Bare life’ in camp memoirs and in the prose of Jaan Oks

Olema + Vmine constructions in Estonian dialects

Russia as experienced by Johannes Barbarus

The case of a travelogue

Collectors’ work at the Estonian Archive of Cultural History

Sly Ain and the Old Heathen

Literary marginalia in the Noorus magazine of the 1960s, Part I

Official patriotism or national thinking?

Friedrich Nikolai Russow’s and Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald’s texts inspired by the Crimean War

On peripheral causativity

Illness and yearning

Lilli Suburg’s winding path of life

Disintegrating? Not disintegrating?

Re-philology and its three components

Liberation of philology from Excel

The programme of a Cubo-Futurist Neo-Philology

Measurements do not create a theory

Disintegration or renewal of folkloristics?

Some philological perspectives

Hymn translations and the history of Estonian philology

Deictic close reading

On tense and consciousness

Tense and the centre of orientation in Estonian complement clauses

Return of the South Estonian language into literary prose

The return to philology

An American view

Marie Under as the Estonian translator of „The Poems of Yuri Zhivago”

Eine Reise, zwei Tagebücher

Über die Europa-Reise Anna Sophie und Gustav von Stackelbergs in den Jahren 1797–1799

The question of municipality names in the Estonian municipality reform of the 1930s

Antihumanism without reserve

The function of jokes and the dimension of destruction in the recent poetry of (:)kivisildnik

Philology that is no more

On the poetics of transgressive literature (I)

Some examples from contemporary Estonian literature

Wh-questions in Estonian everyday conversation

Letters from Estonians in Siberia

Contacts with homeland and continuation of fieldwork

Oskar Loorits and perspectivism

The competence and use of Estonian as a second language

Addenda to the census data

On the poetics of transgressive literature (II)

Case study: Kaur Kender’s „Untitled 12”

Two younger loanwords in Estonian

What to do with the Estonian term suremus ‘mortality’?

The crazy idea of etymologising plant names

adru (Fucus vesiculosus)

„Truth and Justice” was not written by Shakespeare

The 90th anniversary of the publication of Part One of A. H. Tammsaare’s novel

The fading world of epistolaries

Adaptation and domestication of words

Horizon conferences

The charm and pain of interdisciplinarity

Friedebert Tuglas’s speech on Latvian Writers’ Day at the Riga Latvian Society House on May 31, 1940

Antiques and old things, fieldwork and collection of cultural heritage material

Some practical aspects of learning theological Latin

Estonian philology alive and kicking

Fall of Pearl

More on the capitalization of historical events in Estonian

Lindenes revisited 40 years later

Mari Saat in light and shadow

Two textbooks of literature by Jan Kaus

A book of winds and storms

Decorating a turtle with diamonds: Marie Underi „Sonetid” – the languid poetry of an age of decadence

Thus spoke Kivisildnik

When word was deed: On a selection of Russian Formalist texts

The deep meaning of looking over the fence

Learning Latin for theology

Personal, if not too much so

A critical look at textbooks as the main genre of post-modern literary education

Komis: A mythological surprise

Words written by candlelight now open for examination

The end of the Crocs world

Armin Kõomägi. Lui Vutoon. Tuum, 2015. 286 lk.

On the Estonian translation of „Eibofolke oder die Schweden an den Küsten Ehstlands und auf Runö” by Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Russwurm

Carl Rußwurm. Eibofolke ehk rootslased Eestimaa randadel ja Ruhnus. Tõlkinud Ivar Rüütli. Toimetanud Saale Kareda, Tiina Hallik. Eestirootsi Akadeemia, 2015. 789 lk.

The magic social realism of Siberia

Roosi Siberi lood. Eesti asundused VII. Koostanud ja toimetanud Anu Korb. Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi Teaduskirjastus, 2015. 304 lk.

A poetess and her metamorphoses

Mari Vallisoo. Mälestusi maailmast 1966–2013. Ilmamaa, 2015. 623 lk.

Any bog can support an island or two. About the voluminous correspondence between Uku Masing and Toomas Paul

Uku Masing, Toomas Paul. Usalda ennast. Koostanud ja toimetanud Mari-Liis Tammiste. Ilmamaa, 2015. 494 lk.

Balancing things with a rifle. On a selective collection of literary articles by Jaak Urmet

Jaak Urmet. Vintpüss kõrval. Valitud kirjandusloolisi artikleid. Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2015. 432 lk.

Annotations

Positivist nostalgia

Toomas Haug. Tagasi Troojamäele. 30 kirjatööd ja interluudium. Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2015. 488 lk.

Jüri Talvet’s quest for symbiosis as the light of love

Jüri Talvet. Luulest. Studia litteraria Estonica 16. Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2015. 447 lk.

An enjoyable book about the adventures of Leiger, the hero of Hiiumaa

Jegard Kõmmus. Iiu Leiger. Emasde Söruotsa murragus loodud muisdendide sari Iiuma vägimihesd Leigrisd. Teine, täiendatud ja parandatud trükk. Eesti Kirjandusmuuseumi Teaduskirjastus, 2015. 108 lk.

A rebirth of the dictionary of the Eastern dialect

Valdek Pall. Idamurde sõnastik. 2., täiendatud ja parandatud trükk. Toimetanud Ellen Niit. Eesti Keele Instituut. Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2016. 352 lk.

A clear view from afar

Cornelius Hasselblatt. Eemalt vaadates. Veerand sajandit eesti kirjandusega. Studia litteraria Estonica 15. Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2015. 511 lk.

How to portray Kaplinski

Thomas Salumets. Kujuneda sunnita: mõtestades Jaan Kaplinskit. Tõlkinud Kersti Unt. Varrak, 2016. 277 lk.

A local cure for the global hangover

A reliable guide to Latvian toponymy

Laimute Balode, Ojārs Bušs. No Abavas līdz Zilupei. Vietvārdu cilmes īsā vārdnīca. Zin. red. S. Rapa. From Abava to Zilupe. The origin of Latvian geographical names. Scientific editor S. Rapa. A short dictionary. Latviešu valodas aģentūra, 2015. 303 lk.

Estonian literary history home again

Cornelius Hasselblatt. Eesti kirjanduse ajalugu. Heuremata. Humanitaarteaduslikke monograafiaid. Saksa keelest tõlkinud Mari Tarvas, Maris Saagpakk, Ave Mattheus. Tallinn–Tartu, 2016

A sad novel with a bright motto

Kai Aareleid. Linnade põletamine. Tallinn, 2016

An in-depth work on the place names, history and legends of a parish

Lemming Rootsmäe, Ilse Rootsmäe. Võnnu kihelkonna kohanimed ja minevik. Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiivi toimetused 34. Tartu–Võru, 2016

Mehis Heinsaar’s languid walks back to point zero

Mehis Heinsaar. Unistuste tappev kasvamine. Jutte ja novelle, muinasjutte ja nägemusi siit- ja sealtpoolt Eestimaa teid. Tallinn, 2016

On poetics with passion and purpose

Methis. Studia humaniora Estonica 16, 2015. Poeetika erinumber. Koostanud Arne Merilai ja Maria-Kristiina Lotman

Life and fairytale

Metsavaimu heategu. Sada eesti muinasjuttu metsast ja meist. Välja valinud ja ümber pannud Risto Järv. Pildid joonistanud Kadri Roosi. Tallinn, 2016

ANNOTATIONS

Big and small

Meelis Friedenthal. Inglite keel. Tallinn, 2016, 208 lk.

How to define the irrational

Maarja Vaino. Tammsaare irratsionaalsuse poeetika. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2016. 258 lk.

A fresh view of Bernard Kangro

Maarja Hollo. Romantiline subjekt, mälu ja trauma Bernard Kangro sõjajärgses loomingus. (Dissertationes litterarum et contemplationis comparativae Universitatis Tartuensis 12.) Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2016. 193 lk.

An onomasiological approach to word formation

Reet Kasik. Sõnamoodustus. (Eesti keele varamu 1.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2015. 424 lk.

A word on empathy

When the word was mistaken

The roots of a sensational „mistake”

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