Kristiina Ross (born on 3 June 1955 in

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju ' ...

) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n linguist and translator. In 1978 she graduated from

Tartu State University The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

in Estonian philology. Since 1978 she is working at Estonian Language Institute. She has also worked at Estonian Humanitarian Institute. Her main fields of research have been the grammar of Estonian language and other

Finnic languages The Finnic (''Fennic'') or more precisely Balto-Finnic (Balto-Fennic, Baltic Finnic, Baltic Fennic) languages constitute a branch of the Uralic language family spoken around the Baltic Sea by the Baltic Finnic peoples. There are around 7 mi ...

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into Estonian. Her father was the writer Jaan Kross.

Awards

* 2003:

Order of the White Star The Order of the White Star ( et, Valgetähe teenetemärk; french: Ordre de l'Etoile Blanche) was instituted in 1936. The Order of the White Star is bestowed on Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic ...

, IV class * 2007: Wiedemann Language Award

Works

* Heebrea keel algajatele (1985) * lnstruktiiv läänemeresoome keeltes (1988) * Eesti keele käsiraamat (1997, 2007, with M. Erelt and T. Erelt) * Esimene Moosese raamat. Iiobi raamat (2003, compilator) * Common roots of the Latvian and Estonian literary languages (2008, one of the authors) * Linguistic Ideas of the Lutheran Reformation in the Genesis of Literary Estonian. In: Kauko, Mikko; Norro, Miika; Nummila, Kirsi-Maria; Toropainen, Tanja; Fonsén Tuomo (Ed.). Languages in the Lutheran Reformation. Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas. Amsterdam University Press, p. 57-77. (Crossing Boundaries: Turku Medieval and Early Modern Studies) * Ross, Kristiina; Lohk, Ahti (2017). Words, Forms and Phrases in Estonian Folksongs and Hymns. Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, 67, 49−64.10.7592/FEJF. * Die Entstehung der estnischen Schriftsprache im Kontext der deutschen und estnischen Kulturgeschichte. Jahrbuch des Vereins für niederdeutsche Sprachforschung. Kiel/Hamburg: Wachholtz Verlag – Murmann Publishers, 2016, S. 57-68. (Niededeutsches Jahrbuch). * Spuren einer mittelalterlichen estnischen Gemeinschaftssprache in frühprotestantischen Schriftzeugnissen. Kadri-Rutt Hahn, Matthias Thumser, Eberhard Winkler. Estnisches Mittelalter. Sprache – Gesellschaft – Kirche. Münster: LIT Verlag, 2015, S. 41-53. (Schriften der Baltischen Historischen Kommission; 20). * Ross, Kristiina; Vanags, Pēteris (eds.). Common Roots of the Latvian and Estonian Literary Languages. Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2008 .

References

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