Sökning: "aspectual class"

Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade orden aspectual class.

  1. 1. Aspectual classes of Verbs in Nyamwezi

    Författare :Ponsiano Sawaka Kanijo; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nyamwezi; aspectual class; phasal structure; diagnostic test;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation deals with the classification of verbs in Nyamwezi, a Bantu language spoken in central west Tanzania. The major aims of this study have been twofold: first, to classify Nyamwezi verbs into different aspectual classes, and second, to present a variety of tests that were used as evidence for a verb’s aspectual class membership. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Aspects of the Grammar and Lexicon of Sεlεε

    Författare :Yvonne Agbetsoamedo; Östen Dahl; Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm; Felix Ameka; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sεlεε; Santrokofi; GTM; grammatical description; noun class; negation; tense; aspect; diminutive; temperature evaluations; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is a description of some aspects of the grammar of Sɛlɛɛ, a Ghana-Togo-Mountain (GTM) language, based on my own fieldwork. The thesis consists of an introduction and five papers.Paper (I), Noun classes in Sεlεε, describes the noun class system of Sɛlɛɛ. LÄS MER

  4. 3. El Pretérito Perfecto Compuesto del español de Chile, Paraguay y Uruguay : Aspectos semánticos y discursivos

    Författare :Carlos Henderson; Johan Falk; Chadwick Howe; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Spanish Present Perfect; basic meaning; type and token reference; temporal indeterminacy; detemporalized ascertainment; aspectual complicity.; Spanish language; Spanska språket; Spanish; spanska;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of the present work is to describe the semantics and the discursive functions from a general cognitivist point of view of the usage of the Present Perfect in the spoken Spanish of Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. It is argued that cross-linguistic values often ascribed to perfect, such as continuity, current relevance and recency to the speech time –ST– do not offer a consistent view of the actual usage. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Word formation in BSL

    Författare :Mary Brennan; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :Sign Language; teckenspråk;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores the interlocking strands of productive morphology in British Sign Language (BSL), the language used by the Deaf Community in Britain. It examines how users of the language, 'signers', are able to create 'new* lexical items on a regular everyday basis. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Ndengeleko Language of Tanzania

    Författare :Eva-Marie Ström; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ndengeleko; Bantu; Tanzania; Rufiji; phonology; morphology; morpho-phonology; endangered languages; grammar; linguistic description; spirantisation; animacy; conjoint; disjoint;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation describes the Ndengeleko language of Tanzania, in particular the phonology and morphology in the noun and verb phrase. This Bantu language, spoken by approximately 72,000 people, has not been the subject of any previous linguistic study. LÄS MER