Sökning: "Language typology"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 55 avhandlingar innehållade orden Language typology.

1. 16. Mapping prosody onto the lexicon : Memory traces for lexically specified prosodic information in the brain

   Författare :Hatice Zora; Mattias Heldner; Iris-Corinna Schwarz; Valéria Csépe; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; lexical access; prosody; neuroimaging; electroencephalography; event-related potentials; memory trace; typology; English; Turkish; Swedish; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : Lexical access, the matching of auditory information onto lexical representations in the brain, is a crucial component of online language processing. To understand the nature of lexical access, it is important to identify the kind of acoustic information that is stored in the long-term memory and to study how the brain uses such information. LÄS MER

3. 17. Orientation and motion in the world’s languages : From field studies to cross-linguistic comparison

   Författare :Maja Robbers; Harald Hammarström; Anetta Kopecka; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; spatial relations; motion events; diversity linguistics; language typology; frames of reference; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : Human life frequently involves spatial orientation and motion, and natural languages express manifold aspects of spatial perception in diverse ways. The articles included in this thesis delve into several of these aspects and explore space and motion from multiple perspectives, ranging from a dedicated field study of within-language variation systems to cross-linguistic comparisons of various orientation and motion aspects. LÄS MER

4. 18. Transitivity in discourse : A comparison of Greek, Polish and Swedish

   Författare :Ann Lindvall; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agentivity; affectedness; aspect; boundedness; cognitive semantics; definiteness; discourse semantics; dynamism; functionalism; givenness; Greek; language typology; lexical semantics; modality; Modern Greek; Polish; transitivity; Swedish; translation; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This work assumes that various linguistic forms in different languages are related to common cognitive functions and semantic properties. A cognitive function - presumably universal - is information transmission. LÄS MER

5. 19. Progressives in use and contact : A descriptive, areal and typological study with special focus on selected Iranian languages

   Författare :Ghazaleh Vafaeian; Östen Dahl; Agnes Korn; Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm; Pier Marco Bertinetto; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; progressive; use; contact; areal; parallel corpora; typology; grammaticalization; Iranian; Persian; Mazandarani; Gilaki; Taleshi; Tati; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : Progressives are grammatical patterns primarily used to refer to events that are ongoing at a specific time. This thesis investigates uses of such patterns in a number of languages as well as the interaction of a number of progressives in contact. LÄS MER

7. 20. Rhythm and Intonation in Halh Mongolian

   Författare :Anastasia Karlsson; Fonetik; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Jämförande lingvistik; typology; Comparative linguistics; rhythm; prosodi; syllabification; Mongolian; Linguistics; Allmän språkvetenskap Lingvistik; Phonetics; phonology; fonologi; Fonetik; språktypologi; Finno-Ugrian and Altaic languages; Finsk-ugriska och altaiska språk;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation provides the first comprehensive account of the prosody of Halh (Khalkha) Mongolian as spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia. The phonological description is based on acoustic analysis of speech data collected from nine Mongolian-speakers. LÄS MER