On the birth of the thematic issue

First preface

Affect, colonialism, nationalism and cultural studies

Second preface

Human science as national self-reflection

Third preface

Making the nations: A humanities point of view

To be and to work as an Estonian

Estonians’ own historical research

Is there a place for a nation in a linguist’s brain?

The contribution of the student members of the Mother Tongue Society to the Estonian national discourse in the early 1920s

Should the state be the only focus of language-policy research?

Literary studies and the nation – sense and sensibility

Literature, science and nationality

Finno-Ugric kinship in the Estonian national image: A shared emotion or a fuzzy question?

Estonian ethnography and Estonian nationalism

Sovietisation as a preservative for Estonian national folkloristics

Nationalism in the eyes of others

Uncanny homecoming in Estonian literature

The verb panema ‘put’ and its grammatical functions

A rivalry of two Estonian terms for Unitas Fratrum: vennastekogudus or vennastekogu(d)?

On books and reading as reflected in Baltic German memoir literature

Ahasuerus’s testimony

A literary pilgrimage as a moral obligation in the novel Ahasveeruse uni /The Sleep of Ahasuerus/ (2001) by Ene Mihkelson

Responses to wh-questions in Estonian spoken interaction

What is the role of mora in Estonian?

About the Baltic German reception of English poetry and drama, based on the Library of the Estonian Literary Society

Ado Grenzstein’s pursuit to launch a daily of his own

Marriage of a cleric and some anti-Catholic motifs in 17th-century poems for pastors’ weddings

Hidden changes in the prosodic structure of Estonian

Do women and men really translate differently?

Four Estonian translations of A. Tolstoy’s story “The Golden Key, or the Adventures of Buratino”

Everything deserves to be observed and admired: an interview with Anna Verschik

The prologue of the ius primae noctis stereotype in Estonia

The relations between landlords and peasant girls as ­reflected in runo songs and in the works of German authors of the Enlightenment

The changing meaning of the term ‘modernism’ in the Estonian literary space

A reconstruction

The forms chosen for the expression of negation in the 17th- and 18th-century North Estonian texts

Theoretical linguistics and quantitative methods

A look at first language acquisition

Theoretical foundations and quantitative approaches

Corpus-based quantitative dialectology

Estonian learner language development – how and why: addressing an interlanguage corpus

List task and naming task as psycholinguistic methods

Advantages and pitfalls

Doing numbers and Cognitive Linguistics

Place of statistics in a language model

The shifting relationship between discourse analysis and quantification in the English- and French-language tradition

Quantitative shift in linguistics – an old discussion revived

Name transfer and its interpretation in Estonian toponymy

Two colleagues sharing a common interest

Ülo Tedre (12. II 1928 – 9. III 2015). Heldur Niit (9. IX 1928 – 21. X 2010)

Behind the tweets and beeps there is a person of flesh and blood

An interview with Eda Kalmre

The pleasure(?) of thinking

Some insights into the essays by Hando Runnel

The functions of des- and mata-converb constructions

An interview with the Undusk brothers (Jaan and Rein, scholars of literature)

From Jamaica to Paris and back to Tartu again

On Lydia Koidula’s world­view and adaptation strategies in the light of her German examples

Estonian lexis revisited

The Dictionary of Estonian 2018

From trauma to novel

The genre, poetics and historical background of Salme Ekbaum’s novel Ristitants (Dancing around the Cross)

On the etymology of the stronghold names Agelinde and Kedipiv

roobas – a word describing the condition of ancient roads

Some words of a criminal background (slang) in the Estonian standard language: ment and parask

On the 60th anniversary of Keel ja Kirjandus: addresses by three ­former editors-in-chief – Aksel Tamm, Mart Meri and Joel Sang

Philology is gone, national focus is gone. What ­r­emains? Keel ja Kirjandus 60

What is poetry?

“...until Death put a period to his life”

Pastor Hollmann’s speech at Friedrich Robert Faehlmann’s grave

Koidula’s letters

An unborn publication

Culture or the Universe? Review of a collection of essays on the methodology of cultural studies

Kuidas uurida kultuuri? Kultuuriteaduste metodoloogia. Koostanud Marek Tamm. Gigantum humeris. Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2016

Bits and pieces: a review of Kalju Kruusa’s poetry collection

Kruusa Kalju. Ühe inimese elu (pooleli). Valitud luuletusi. Tallinn: Kirimiri, 2017

The meaning of Koidula: a review of M. Salupere’s comprehensive biography of the first great Estonian poetess

Malle Salupere. Koidula. Ajastu taustal, kaasteeliste keskel. Tänapäev, 2017

In general: a review of the Estonian translation of Ferdinand de Saussure’s “Course in general linguistics”

Ferdinand de Saussure. Üldkeeleteaduse kursus. Tlk Tiit Kuuskmäe. (Avatud Eesti Raamat.) Tallinn: Varrak, 2017

A doctoral thesis on emotions in Estonian speech

Kairi Tamuri. Basic emotions in read Estonian speech: acoustic ana­lysis and modelling. (Dissertationes philologiae Estonicae Universitatis Tartuensis 39.) Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2017

Annotations

Simple yet complex poetry

Hasso Krull. Kandsime redelit kaasas. 40 luuletust. Tartu: Kaksikhammas, 2017

Nothing less than the fate of the world

Mihkel Mutt. Õhtumaa Eesti II. Sotsiaalpoliitilist esseistikat. Tallinn: Fabian, 2017

Literature and intermediality

Kirjanduse intermeedialisus / Intermediality of literature. (Philologia Estonica Tallinnensis 2 (2017). Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2017

Vernacular stories from Risti and Harju-Madise

Evi Juhkam. Loode-Eesti murdelood. Risti ja Harju-Madise. (Valimik murdetekste IX.) Tallinn: EKSA, 2017

Everything can be handled with equal ease, sympathy and attention

Pille Õnnepalu. rääkimine vaikimine nutmine: vabaduse seletamatu ilu. Tartu: Henrik

The ponderous work of describing, establishing, and easing burdens

Andrus Org. Eesti ulmekirjanduse žanrid ja nende poeetika. (Dissertationes litterarum et contemplationis comparativae Universitatis Tartuensis 16.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus

Another addendum to the research on cultural relations between Germany and the Baltics

Baltisch-deutsche Kulturbeziehungen vom 16. bis 19. Jahrhundert. Medien – Institutionen – Akteure. 1. kd: Zwischen Reformation und Aufklärung (Akademiekonferenzen 28.) Koost R. Bičevskis, J. Eickmeyer, A. Levans, A. Schaper, B. Spiekermann, I. Walter

A dictionary of interest for students of linguistic enclaves

Sarmīte Balode, Ilga Jansone. Kalnienas izloksnes vārdnīca 1–2. Rīga: LU Latviešu valodas institūts, 2017. 1. kd 648 lk, 2. kd 720 lk

Lack of personal freshness: on a collection of Estonian young literature

Kivipilvede all. Tekste Värskest Rõhust 2005–2017. Koostanud Carolina Pihelgas. SA Kultuurileht, 2017

A view of Western Soviet studies from the West of the USSR

Epp Annus. Soviet Postcolonial Studies. A View from the Western Borderlands. London–New York: Routledge, 2018

Culture is about meaning

Rein Raud. Tähenduste keeris. Tervikliku kultuuriteooria visand. Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2017

The 19th-century bridge-builders between Finland and Estonia

Seppo Zetterberg. Rändajad Soome sillal. Kontaktid üle Soome lahe 19. sajandil. Soome keelest tõlkinud Sirje Olesk. Tallinn: Varrak, 2017

Estonian lexical developments on the border of East and West

Sven-Erik Soosaar. Eesti keele kultuursõnavara arengujooni − eesti keel kui piirikeel. (Dissertationes philologiae Estonicae Universitatis Tartuensis 40.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2017

Annotations

Serafima and Hariton

Vahur Afanasjev. Serafima ja Bogdan. Tartu: Vemsa, 2017

A reader’s pilgrimage and a critic’s toil

Mudlum. Ümberjutustaja. Tartu: Elusamus, 2017

Ljubov Kisseljova’s magnum opus

Ljubov Kisseljova. Eesti-vene kultuuriruum. Vene keelest tõlkinud Malle Salupere, Mall Jõgi, Silvi Salupere. Tõlke redigeerija Silvi Salupere. Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2017

A convincing dissertation

Marju Lepajõe. Pastorid ja kirjakultuur: kristliku humanismi variatsioonidest Eesti- ja Liivi­maal XVII sajandi esimesel poolel. (Dissertationes theologiae Uni­versitatis Tartuensis 34.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2018

A new, more thorough and modern view of Estonian syntax

Eesti keele süntaks. Toimetanud Mati Erelt, Helle Metslang. (Eesti keele varamu III.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2017

What is the language of bones and sherds?

Valter Lang. Läänemeresoome tulemised. (Muinasaja teadus 28.) Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2018

Loving the Republic – and oneself

Minu elu ja ­armastus. Eesti rahva elulood. Kahes köites. Koostajad Rutt Hinrikus ja Tiina Ann Kirss. Tallinn­–Tartu: Tänapäev, Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, 2018

Collective identity between theory and practice

Martin Ehala. Identiteedimärgid. Ühtekuuluvuse anatoo­mia. Tallinn: Künnimees, 2018

An innocent book

Rein Raud. Kell ja haamer. Tallinn: Mustvalge Kirjastus, 2017

A rare ”pekka” – the Lilja

Pekka Lilja. Koos lahus. Uurimusi ja kriitikat eesti ja soome kirjandusest. Koostanud P. Lilja, Mart Velsker. (Studia litteraria Estonica 19.) Tõlkinud Ene Kaaber, Andres Langemets, Margit Langemets, Heldur Niit, Ele Süvalep, Linda Uustalu, Eva Velsker jt

Jaan Tõnisson’s letters to Oskar Kallas as a friend and equal

Jaan Tõnissoni kirjad Oskar Kallasele 1891–1936. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2018

Chudes and the Sami

Hans-Hermann Bartens. ­Tschuden und andere Feinde in der saamischen Erzähltradition. (Folklore Fellow’s Communications 312.) Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, 2017

There are (more) things in the night

Carolina Pihelgas. Pimeduse pisiasjad. Kaksikhammas, 2017

A hunch of daring

Aija Sakova. Valu, mälu, kirjandus. Kirjanduskriitikat ja vestlusi aastatest 2004–2017. Tallinn: EKSA, 2017

Found and lost in translation

Стратегии nеревода и государственный контроль. Translation Strategies and State Control. (Acta Slavica Esto-nica IX.) Труды по русской и славянской филологии. Литературоведение. Tartu: University of Tartu Press, 2017

A different collection of folk calendar tradition, with the focus on Virumaa

Mall Hiiemäe. Virumaa kalendripärimus. Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiiv. Tartu–Rakvere: EKM Teaduskirjastus, 2018

Back home from a violent exile

Raimo Pullat. Tallinna arhiivi tagasitoomisest Saksamaalt. Tallinn: Estopol, 2018

A doctoral dissertation by an experienced language teacher on the acquisition of Estonian and its grammatical constructions

Mare Kitsnik. Iga asi omal ajal: eesti keele B1- ja B2-taseme verbikonstruktsioonid keeleoskuse arengu näitajana. (Humanitaarteaduste dissertatsioonid 43.) Tallinn: Tallinna Ülikool, 2018

A “silent avant-garde”

Priit Kruus. Vaikne avangard. Eesti noorkirjanike rühmituste laine ja uue meedia kooslused: Era­konnast ZA/UM-ini. (Tallinna Ülikool. Humanitaarteaduste dissertatsioonid 44.) Tallinn: Tal-linna Ülikool, 2018

A stranger to oneself: the ravines in Marie Heiberg’s soulscape

Marie Heiberg. Õnnetäht. Uudis- ja mõistujutud. Tartu: Ilmamaa; Marie Heiberg. Rändaja tütarlaps. Tartu: Ilmamaa, 2017

The Seto tradition and traces of ancient Slavs in the Museum of Man in Paris

Inimese Muuseumi ekspeditsioonid Eestisse: Boris Vilde ja Leonid Zurov Setomaal (1937–1938). (Seto Instituudi toimetised 2.) Koostanud ja toimetanud Tatiana Benfoughal, Olga Fišman, Heiki Valk. Tartu: Tartu Ülikool; Seto Instituut, 2017

Estonian names among the family names of Latgale

Ilmārs Mežs. Latviešu uzvārdi arhīvu materiālos. Latgale. Rīga: Latviešu valodas aģentūra, 2017

Annotations

The first decade of Finno-Ugric seminars held at the Institute of the Estonian language: a retrospective

A large chapter of Indo-European studies

In memoriam Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017)

Review

Review

Review

Casus Mustelae nivalis

Endel Nirki mäletades (15. XII 1925 – 15. IV 2018)

The Institute of Estonian Language and Literature by Sweden

Paul Laan 90

In Memoriam Hellar Grabbi (22.09.1929 – 28.07.2018)

In memoriam Isidor Levin (20. IX 1919 – 24. VII 2018)

Rahvusest – Mai Bereczkit mälestades (27. II 1929 – 31. VII 2018)

Review

Viennese and Berlin recordings

Sound recordings from prisoner-of-war camps of World War I

Review