Sökning: "Indo-European linguistics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 avhandlingar innehållade orden Indo-European linguistics.

1. 1. The extended voice : Instances of myth in the Indo-European corpus

   Författare :Peter Jackson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Indo-European poetics; Vedic religion; Greek religion; pre-Christian Scandinavian religion; myth; oral tradition; oral literature; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

   Sammanfattning : Proceeding from the presence of recurrent, poetic phrases and verbal collocations in early texts composed in Indo-European languages, this study is an attempt to elucidate some fundamental problems of myth, tradition and culture. The scholarly study of Indo-European religions and mythology-initiated during the 19th century and proceeding up to modem times with varying success-has often been devoted to the task of restoring a homogeneous system of Indo-European religious beliefs by searching for deep-seated reflexes of such a system in the historically attainable cultures. LÄS MER

3. 2. Triangulating Perspectives on Lexical Replacement : From Predictive Statistical Models to Descriptive Color Linguistics

   Författare :Susanne Vejdemo; Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm; Bernhard Wälchli; Majid Asifa; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; semantics; lexical typology; semantic typology; historical linguistics; historical semantics; lexical replacement; lexical change; rate of lexical replacement; color; regression models; Swedish; English; German; Danish; Norwegian; Icelandic; method triangulation; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate lexical replacement processes from several complementary perspectives. It does so through three studies, each with a different scope and time depth. LÄS MER

4. 3. Studies in Latvian Comparative Dialectology : —with special focus on word-final *–āj(s)/*–ēj(s) and *–āji(s)/*–ēji(s)

   Författare :Aigars Kalniņš; Jenny Larsson; Peteris Vanags; Marek Majer; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Baltic languages; Latvian; Lithuanian; Proto-Latvian; Proto-East Baltic; historical-comparative linguistics; Indo-European linguistics; dialectology; apocope; morphological shortening; inflectional endings; local cases; present 2nd singular; locative; baltiska språk; Baltic Languages;

   Sammanfattning : The thesis consists of four interconnected studies of various topics in the fields of Latvian dialectology and historical linguistics: (1) apocope and shortening; (2) loss of the present 2nd singular endings *?i and *??; (3) the development of the participle desinences *??jis *??jis; (4) the ??�and ??stem locative singular endings. A recurrent theme is a potential loss of *j in the phonological sequences *??ji(s) *??ji(s), which were subsequently contracted to *??j(s) *??j(s). LÄS MER

5. 4. Monosyllabic Circumflexion in Lithuanian

   Författare :Yoko Yamazaki; Jenny Larsson; Peteris Vanags; Thomas Olander; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; historical linguistics; comparative linguistics; Monosyllabic Circumflexion; Lithuanian; Lithuanian 3rd person future forms; root noun; preposition; adverb; pronoun; Baltio-Slavic accentology; baltiska språk; Baltic Languages;

   Sammanfattning : This PhD thesis examines a phenomenon known as Monosyllabic Circumflexion (MC, hereafter) from a historical linguistics / phonological point of view. MC denotes a Lithuanian or Balto-Slavic phenomenon according to which long vowels and diphthongs in monosyllabic words exhibit a circumflex tone instead of the expected acute tone. LÄS MER

7. 5. A Comparative Grammar of Latin and the Sabellian Languages : The System of Case Syntax

   Författare :Karin Tikkanen; Gerd Haverling; Gerhard Meiser; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin; Sabellian languages; Oscan; Umbrian; Proto-Italic; case syntax; comparative linguistics; historical linguistics; Sprachbund; Stammbaum; Latin language; Latin; latin; Latin;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a comparative grammar of the case syntax of Latin and the Sabellian languages. The Sabellian languages were a group of Indo-European languages on the Italian peninsula, attested in inscriptions approx. 650 – 50 BCE. LÄS MER