Sökning: "descriptive linguistics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 38 avhandlingar innehållade orden descriptive linguistics.

1. 1. Topics in the grammar of Kuot, a non-Austronesian language of New Ireland, Papua New Guinea

   Författare :Eva Lindström; William McGregor; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Deskriptiv grammatik; papuanska språk; kuot; descriptive linguistics; descriptive grammar; Papuan languages; New Ireland; Papua New Guinea; Papua nya guinea; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Social anthropology ethnography; Socialantrolopologi etnografi; General Linguistics; allmän språkvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis describes certain areas in the grammar of the little-known Kuot language, spoken by some 1,500 people in New Ireland Province in Papua New Guinea. Kuot is an isolate, and is the only non-Austronesian (Papuan) language of that province. The analyses presented here are based on original data from 18 months of linguistic fieldwork. 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. 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

5. 4. A Grammatical Description of Dameli

   Författare :Emil Perder; Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm; Eva Lindström; Elena Bashir; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Dameli; Damiabaasha; grammatical description; descriptive grammar; grammar; Dardic; Hindu Kush languages; Indo-Aryan; dml; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation aims to provide a grammatical description of Dameli (ISO-639-3: dml), an Indo-Aryan language spoken by approximately 5 000 people in the Domel Valley in Chitral in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in the North-West of Pakistan. Dameli is a left-branching SOV language with considerable morphological complexity, particularly in the verb, and a complicated system of argument marking. LÄS MER

7. 5. The Balochi Language of Turkmenistan : A corpus-based grammatical description

   Författare :Serge Axenov; Carina Jahani; Åke Viberg; Elena Bashir; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :Iranian languages; Balochi; dialectology; phonology; morphology; syntax; descriptive linguistics; sociolinguistics; unwritten languages; fieldwork; Iranian languages; Iranska språk - allmänt; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a synchronic description of the Balochi language as spoken in Turkmenistan. The dissertation consists of three main parts: sound structure, word and phraselevel morphosyntax and clause structure. LÄS MER