A Descriptive Grammar Of Estonian

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

"This is a Ph.D. dissertation. This study contributes to the research tradition of interactional linguistics. It demonstrates how interactional patterns and sequences of actions are, or emerge as, part of the syntagmatic structure of a language, and why th"

Estonian is the national language of Estonia, a small Baltic republic which gained it's independence after the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This book provides three thousand, seven hundred dictionary entries, a pronunciation guide, and basic Estonian grammar. It also includes phrases for the traveler, student or businessperson, and practical cultural information.

This work focuses on the ideological intertwining between Czech, Magyar, Polish and Slovak, and the corresponding nationalisms steeped in these languages. The analysis is set against the earlier political and ideological history of these languages, and the panorama of the emergence and political uses of other languages of the region.