Kristiina Ross
Kristiina Ross is an Estonian linguist and translator.
In 1978 she graduated from Tartu State University 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, Bible translations into Estonian.
Her father was the writer Jaan Kross, and she was the wife of Jaan Ross.
Awards
- 2003: Order of the White Star, IV class
- 2007: Wiedemann Language Award
Works
Source:- Heebrea keel algajatele
- lnstruktiiv läänemeresoome keeltes
- Eesti keele käsiraamat
- Esimene Moosese raamat. Iiobi raamat
- Common roots of the Latvian and Estonian literary languages
- Linguistic Ideas of the Lutheran Reformation in the Genesis of Literary Estonian. In: Kauko, Mikko; Norro, Miika; Nummila, Kirsi-Maria; Toropainen, Tanja; Fonsén Tuomo. Languages in the Lutheran Reformation. Textual Networks and the Spread of Ideas. Amsterdam University Press, p. 57-77.
- Ross, Kristiina; Lohk, Ahti. 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..
- 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..
- Ross, Kristiina; Vanags, Pēteris. Common Roots of the Latvian and Estonian Literary Languages. Peter Lang Europäischer Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2008.