Sökning: "diachronic studies"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 41 avhandlingar innehållade orden diachronic studies.

1. 1. The vowels of Delhi English : Three studies in sociophonetics

   Författare :Raphaël Domange; Peter Sundkvist; Niclas Abrahamsson; Raymond Hickey; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Indian English; phonology; sociophonetics; language variation and change; language contact; world Englishes; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : Addressing the dearth of sociolinguistic variation research in the “new” varieties of English (D. Sharma, 2017b), this dissertation consists of a set of three sociophonetic studies on an urban dialect of Indian English. LÄS MER

3. 2. Preaspiration in the Nordic languages : synchronic and diachronic aspects

   Författare :Pétur Helgason; John J. Ohala; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : Preaspiration—the production of glottal friction at the juncture of a vowel and a consonant—appears to be typologically rare but is an areal linguistic feature of Northwestern Europe. This study contains a survey of the known geographical spread of preaspirated stops, their phonological distribution and phonetic expressions in some Nordic dialects. LÄS MER

4. 3. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change

   Författare :Felix Schaeffler; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish dialects; phonological quantity; vowel and consonant duration; cluster analysis; linguistic typology; phonetic variation; diachronic change; Phonetics; Fonetik;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.The study is explorative in character. LÄS MER

5. 4. The book and its narratives : a critical examination of some synchronic studies of the book of Judges

   Författare :Greger Andersson; Lars-Åke Skalin; Göran Eidevall; Örebro universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Domarboken; narratologi; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; Litteraturvetenskap; Literature;

   Sammanfattning : During recent decades, there has been a trend among biblical scholars towards applying methods borrowed from literary studies to the familiar texts of the Old and New Testaments. A major reason for this reorientation is the search for a meaningful and interpretable text; hence, it can be seen as a protest against the historical-critical school and its ambition to reconstruct an authentic text by means of a diachronic analysis. LÄS MER

7. 5. Ambaricho and Shonkolla. From Local Independent Church to the Evangelical Mainstream in Ethiopia. The Origins of the Mekane Yesus Church in Kambata Hadiya

   Författare :Staffan Grenstedt; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Ethiopia; Kambata; Hadiya; Indigenous; Revivals; African Factor; Worldly Prac-tices; Drinking; Dissonance; Independent Church; Ethos; Kambata Evangelical Church 2; Ethiopian Evangelical Solidarity; Ecumenical; Comity; Mainstream Churches; Ethiopian Evan-gelical Church Mekane Yesus; Kambata Synod; South Central Synod; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Missionsvetenskap; Studies of Missions;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis is a contribution to the scholarly debate on how African Independent Churches (AICs) relate to outside partners. It is a case study from the perspective of the periphery of Ethiopia, which explains the origins of the Mekane Yesus Church in Kambata Hadiya The diachronic structure of the study with a focus from 1944 to 1975 highlights how a group of Christians reacted to cultural pressure and formed a local independent church, the Kambata Evangelical Church 2 (KEC-2). LÄS MER