EESTI KEELE MÖÖNDLAUSE: MARKERID NING KOHT ALISTUSE JA RINNASTUSE TELJEL
Estonian concessive clauses – markers and positions in the chain of subordination and coordination

Summary/Abstract: Concessive clauses indicate that the situation or event in the main clause is contrary to expectation in the light of the situation or event in the concessive clause. The two clauses that form a concessive sentence have factual character. Concessive clauses are characterized by a multiplicity of markers. In Old Written Estonian, the most frequently used markers of concessives were ehk (…) küll and et (…) küll; today the former is marginal and the latter has lost its concessive function entirely. In contemporary Estonian, the most frequent concessive conjunctions are kuigi (formed from the temporal-conditional conjunction kui + the emphatic particle -gi/-ki) and ehkki. In both Old Written Estonian and contemporary Estonian, concessive markers (with the exception of sellele vaatamata et, sellest hoolimata et, kuna) include the emphatic particle, either küll or (more frequently in today’s language) the affix -gi/-ki. The concessives in use today had emerged by the 1930s.

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