Sökning: "Language typology"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 55 avhandlingar innehållade orden Language typology.

  1. 6. A typology of comparatives in Sinitic : grammaticalization, patterns and language contact

    Författare :Ansaldo Umberto; David Gil; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; General Linguistics; allmän språkvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation offers a window on the grammatical diversity of Chinese languages, hereafter referred to as Sinitic. It focuses in particular on comparative constructions of southern varieties such as Cantonese, Minnan and Hakka and compares these to northern Mandarin as well as some non- Sinitic languages of Southeast Asia. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Lexical and Grammar Resource Engineering for Runyankore & Rukiga: A Symbolic Approach

    Författare :David Bamutura; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Computational Grammar; Runyankore; Grammar Resource; Grammatical Framework; Lexical Resource; Computational lexicon; Rukiga; Bantu Languages; Runyakitara; Resource Grammar Library; Language Resources; Grammar Engineering;

    Sammanfattning : Current research in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) requires the existence of language resources. Whereas these resources are available for a few well-resourced languages, there are many languages that have been neglected. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Learning aspect in Italian as a third language : Transfer patterns among multilingual learners in the Swedish context

    Författare :Francesco Vallerossa; Camilla Bardel; Anna Bergström; Anna Gudmundson; Llorenç Comajoan-Colomé; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; conceptual linguistic transfer; L3 Italian; non- prototypical associations; Romance; tense-aspect; third language acquisition; språkdidaktik; Language Education;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the impact of previously acquired or learned background languages (BL) on the learning of Italian as a third language (L3) among undergraduate students in the Swedish context. Focusing on the learning of past tense-aspect (TA) inflectional categories in Italian, the thesis investigates the influence of Swedish, English and Romance languages, French or Spanish, in light of four factors. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Bayesian Models for Multilingual Word Alignment

    Författare :Robert Östling; Mats Wirén; Ola Knutsson; Jörg Tiedemann; Sharon Goldwater; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; word alignment; parallel text; Bayesian models; MCMC; linguistic typology; sign language; annotation transfer; transfer learning; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis I explore Bayesian models for word alignment, how they can be improved through joint annotation transfer, and how they can be extended to parallel texts in more than two languages. In addition to these general methodological developments, I apply the algorithms to problems from sign language research and linguistic typology. LÄS MER

  7. 10. The building blocks of sound symbolism

    Författare :Niklas Erben Johansson; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sound symbolism; Iconicity; typology; language evolution; lexicon;

    Sammanfattning : Languages contain thousands of words each and are made up by a seemingly endless collection of sound combinations. Yet a subsection of these show clear signs of corresponding word shapes for the same meanings which is generally known as vocal iconicity and sound symbolism. LÄS MER