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  1. 6. Purism på glid? : Studier i nutida isländskt ordbruk

    Författare :Håkan Jansson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Icelandic; contact linguistics; linguistic loans; lexicalisation; language planning; linguistic purism; corpus linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate changes in vocabulary use in modern Icelandic. This is done by surveying loanwords not conforming to loanword patterns dominant in standard Icelandic since the rise of purism in the second half of the 19th century, and by mapping of the use of colloquialisms and colloquial word forms in written language. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Language contact and structural change : An Old Finnish case study

    Författare :Merlijn De Smit; Erling Wande; Kaisa Häkkinen; Raimo Anttila; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finnish; historical linguistics; language contact; Whitehead; Finnish language; Finska språket;

    Sammanfattning : The object of this study is to shed new light on both the influence exerted on Finnish by the Swedish language, and on the mechanisms by which language contact in structural domains takes place. It is argued that syntactic borrowing should be regarded as a subtype of reanalysis and extension rather than as an independent mechanism. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Gender and its interaction with number and evaluative morphology : An intra- and intergenealogical typological survey of Africa

    Författare :Francesca Di Garbo; Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm; Ljuba Veselinova; Vladimir Plungian; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gender; number; evaluative morphology; interaction; grammatical complexity; Africa; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation investigates interactions between gender and number and gender and evaluative morphology in a sample of 100 African languages, and provides a method for assessing the role that these interactions play in the grammatical complexity of gender systems. The dissertation is organised around three research foci. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Object marking in the signed modality : Verbal and nominal strategies in Swedish Sign Language and other sign languages

    Författare :Carl Börstell; Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm; Irit Meir; Roland Pfau; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sign language; object marking; differential object marking; argument structure; transitivity; valency; directionality; handshape; pronoun; perspective; Swedish Sign Language; Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language; Israeli Sign Language; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I investigate various aspects of object marking and how these manifest themselves in the signed modality. The main focus is on Swedish Sign Language (SSL), the national sign language of Sweden, which is the topic of investigation in all five studies. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Towards a grammar of spoken South Saami

    Författare :Richard Kowalik; Ljuba Veselinova; Henrik Liljegren; Matti Miestamo; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; South Saami; Saamic languages; grammar; phonology; morphology; syntax; language description; language documentation; fieldwork; heritage language; minority language; Åarjelsaemien gïele; grammatihke; Sydsamiska; samiska språk; grammatik; Sørsamisk; grammatikk; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a grammatical description of South Saami, a Uralic language traditionally spoken in central Sweden and Norway. South Saami has today around 500 speakers, many of whom live far from each other. The language has the status of an official language in Norway and is an officially recognized minority language in Sweden. LÄS MER