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Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 68 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Estonian.

  1. 1. From Interaction to Grammar : Estonian Finite Verb Forms in Conversation

    Författare :Leelo Keevallik; Raimo Raag; Bengt Nordberg; Auli Hakulinen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Estonian language; Particles; grammar; grammaticalization; interactional linguistics; pragmatics; telephone conversation; conversation analysis; Estonian; Estniska; Estonian language; Estniska språket;

    Sammanfattning : This study contributes to the research tradition of interactional linguistics. It demonstrates how interactional patterns and sequences of actions are, or emerge as, part of the syntagmatic structure of a language, and why the transitions from interaction to grammar as well as from content to function items, are to be regarded as gradual and continuous. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The effects of planned change on Estonian morphology

    Författare :Virve Raag; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finno-Ugric languages - general; Estonian; language change; language planning; morphology; synthetic forms; analyticforms; illative singular; plural formation; superlative; Johannes Aavik; Finsk-ugriska språk - allmänt; Finno-Ugric languages; Finsk-ugriska språk; Finno-Ugric Languages; finsk-ugriska språk;

    Sammanfattning : This work is a contribution to the fascinating and highly controversial issue of language planning, i.e. intentional human intervention in language change. Language planning, as any intentional alteration of language, is always interconnected with questions of natural development and change in language. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Estnisk satsföljd och meningsstruktur

    Författare :Kirsi Höglund; Raimo Raag; Lars-Gunnar Larsson; Forsgren Tuuli; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Estonian language; clause order; sentence structure; coordination; coordinator; conjunction; subordination; subordinator; subordinate clause; complement clause; adverbial clause; relative clause; direct speech; constructions; genres; text type; syntax; Estonian; Estniska;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis considers Estonian clause order and sentence structures in fiction, scientific prose, women’s magazines, newspapers and on private web pages. The material covers 4488 sentences exhibiting 197 more or less discrepant sentence structures. Recurrent constructions are clause enumerations, iterations, chains and webs. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Islescapes : Estonian small islands and islanders through three centuries

    Författare :Tiina Peil; Michael Jones; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Estonian history; island community; island landscape as accumulation; life space; and image; change; Human Geography; kulturgeografi;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis applies a modification of the concept of landscape to embody physical settings, social behaviour and affixed meanings. The argument focuses on both how a specific environment was created as well as perceived on four Estonian islands from the late seventeenth century until the present. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Living on Another Shore : Early Scandinavian Settlement on the North-Western Estonian Coast

    Författare :Felicia Markus; Anders Kaliff; Göran Hoppe; Kerstin Cassel; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Archaeology; Estonia; Estonian Swedes; Scandinavian settlement; Iron Age; early Medieval Period; colonisation; ethnic identity; migration; Baltic Sea; contacts; Christianisation; Arkeologi; Archaeology subjects; Arkeologiämnen; arkeologi; Archaeology;

    Sammanfattning : Prior to the Second World War, there was a Swedish-speaking population settled on the north-western Estonian coasts. The early history of this group is largely unknown. No colonisation is mentioned in the written sources. The earliest such sources that mention Swedes originate in the late thirteenth century. LÄS MER