Eesti ja soome keele lauseehituse võrdlemisest 1980. ja 1990. aastail
On the comparison of Estonian and Finnish sentence structure in the 1980s and 1990s

Summary/Abstract: One of the primary goals of the project “Grammatical comparison of Finnish and Estonian”, initiated in the 1980s, was to compare the syntactic structure of the two languages. From the Estonian perspective, the scientific dialogue that took place due to the project provided considerable information and new ideas to those who were researching Estonian syntax and compiling a scientific grammar of Estonian. As regards the comparison of the syntactic structure of Finnish and Estonian, however, this was merely a preliminary phase. Concrete results were achieved in the 1990s, when typology became a leading trend in international linguistics. In the follow-up project “Grammatical comparison of the languages of the Baltic region” (SCLOMB), initiated at the University of Turku, a corpus bearing the same name was created, also including the contact languages of Finnish and Estonian. The 1990s saw the publication of numerous contrastive studies; particularly impressive results were achieved in the comparison of tense and aspect systems. The compendium “Lähivertailuja”, which had previous focused primarily on the results of error analysis, began to include comparisons of language structure and became more scientifically significant.

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