Sökning: "derivational morphology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden derivational morphology.

  1. 1. A grammar of Jahai

    Författare :Niclas Burenhult; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kinesiska och språk och litteratur från Syd- och Sydostasien; Chinese; Languages and literatures of South and South-East Asia; expressives; argument; agreement; syntax; modality; Aktionsart; aspect; nominalisation; unitisation; reduplication; cliticisation; affixation; derivational morphology; prestopped nasals; phonology; vowel nasality; Malaysia; endangered languages; Austroasiatic; Mon-Khmer; Jahai; Aslian; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik; Phonetics; Fonetik; fonologi;

    Sammanfattning : Jahai, a language belonging to the Aslian branch of the Mon-Khmer language family, is spoken by a group of about 1,000 hunter-gatherers in the montane rainforests of northern Peninsular Malaysia. Drawing on linguistic data collected in the field, the present dissertation is a study of the grammar of Jahai. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Ndengeleko Language of Tanzania

    Författare :Eva-Marie Ström; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ndengeleko; Bantu; Tanzania; Rufiji; phonology; morphology; morpho-phonology; endangered languages; grammar; linguistic description; spirantisation; animacy; conjoint; disjoint;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation describes the Ndengeleko language of Tanzania, in particular the phonology and morphology in the noun and verb phrase. This Bantu language, spoken by approximately 72,000 people, has not been the subject of any previous linguistic study. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Genus im Wandel : Studien zu Genus und Animatizität anhand von Personenbezeichnungen im heutigen Deutsch mit Kontrastierungen zum Schwedischen

    Författare :Bettina Jobin; Gunnar Magnusson; Hans-Olav Enger; Damaris Nübling; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agreement; animacy; contrastive linguistics; corpus linguistics; derivation; German; Swedish; grammatical gender; grammaticalization; inflectional morphology; language change; non-personal-agents; person reference; pronoun; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Germanic languages; German;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates, theoretically and empirically, the role of animacy in the development of gender systems. The theoretical background is a grammaticalisation approach to language change. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Word formation in BSL

    Författare :Mary Brennan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Sign Language; teckenspråk;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the interlocking strands of productive morphology in British Sign Language (BSL), the language used by the Deaf Community in Britain. It examines how users of the language, 'signers', are able to create 'new* lexical items on a regular everyday basis. LÄS MER

  7. 5. A unified account of the Old English metrical line

    Författare :Andrew Cooper; Nils-Lennart Johannesson; Nigel Fabb; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; metrical phonology; Old English; Anglo-Saxon; syntax-phonology interface; accentual-syllabic; hypermetric; beowulf; optimality metrics; quantitative verse; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study describes the verse design of Old English poetry in terms of modern phonological theory, developing an analysis which allows all OE verse lines to be described in terms of single metrical design.Old English poetry is typified by a single type of line of variable length, characterised by four metrical peaks. LÄS MER