Helle Metslang - Selected Publications#

1) Metslang, Helle (2001). On the Developments of the Estonian Aspect: The Verbal Particle ära. In: Östen Dahl, Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm (eds.), Circum-Baltic Languages, vol. 2: Grammar and typology. (Studies in Language Companion Series 55.) Amsterdam, Benjamins, 443−479.

2) Metslang, Helle (2009). Estonian grammar between Finnic and SAE: some comparisons. Language Typology and Universals, vol. 62, Issue 1/2 (Estonian in Typological Perspective. Ed. by Helle Metslang), 49−71.

3) Metslang, Helle & Külli Habicht, Karl Pajusalu (2011). Developmental paths of interrogative particles: the case of Estonian. Folia Linguistica Historica 32, 149–188.

4) Metslang, Helle & Karl Pajusalu, Tiit-Rein Viitso (2015). Negation in Livonian. In: Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm, Beáta Wagner-Nagy (eds.), Negation in Uralic languages (Typological Studies in Language 108), 433−456. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

5) Metslang, Helle (2017). Can a language be forced? The case of Estonian. In: Daniël Van Olmen, Hubert Cuyckens, Lobke Ghesquière (eds..). Aspects of Grammaticalization (Inter)Subjectification and Directionality (Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs; 305), 281−310. Berlin: De Gruyter. DOI: 10.1515/9783110492347-011.

6) Metslang, Helle; Habicht, Külli; Pajusalu, Karl (2017). Where do polar question markers come from? Language Typology and Universals, 70 (3), 489−521. DOI: 10.1515/stuf-2017-0022

7) Metslang, Helle & Külli Habicht (2023). Partitive, genitive or nominative? Estonian DOM in written use through centuries. Linguistic Variation, 23 (1), 157−189. DOI: 10.1075/lv.20016.met.

8) Metslang, Helle & Mati Erelt, Külli Habicht, Tiit Hennoste, Reet Kasik, Pire Teras, Annika Viht, Eva Liina Asu, Liina Lindström, Pärtel Lippus, Renate Pajusalu, Helen Plado, Andriela Rääbis, Ann Veismann (2023). Eesti grammatika. [Estonian grammar.] Tartu: University of Tartu Press. https://dspace.ut.ee/server/api/core/bitstreams/fe0fc6af-00b5-43b2-bce4-0917bc76e74d/content

9) Metslang, Helle & Külli Habicht, Pärtel Lippus, Karl Pajusalu (2022). Analyticity/syntheticity in the language varieties: The case of Estonian. In: Helle Metslang, Miina Norvik, Andra Kalnača (eds.). Insights into the Baltic and Finnic Languages. Contacts, comparisons, and change (Potsdam Linguistic Investigations series 36), 209−238. Berlin: Peter Lang Publishing.

10) Metslang, Helle & Külli Habicht, Tiit Hennoste, Kirsi Laanesoo-Kalk, Külli Prillop, Andriela Rääbis, Carl Eric Simmul (2024). (Inter)subjectivity in Estonian registers: Introduction. Journal of Uralic Linguistics, 3 (2), 119−158. DOI: 10.1075/jul.00028.met.

Full publication list can be found at https://www.etis.ee/CV/Helle_Metslang/eng