Sökning: "diachronic change"

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  1. 1. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change

    Författare :Felix Schaeffler; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish dialects; phonological quantity; vowel and consonant duration; cluster analysis; linguistic typology; phonetic variation; diachronic change; Phonetics; Fonetik;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.The study is explorative in character. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Preaspiration in the Nordic languages : synchronic and diachronic aspects

    Författare :Pétur Helgason; John J. Ohala; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : Preaspiration—the production of glottal friction at the juncture of a vowel and a consonant—appears to be typologically rare but is an areal linguistic feature of Northwestern Europe. This study contains a survey of the known geographical spread of preaspirated stops, their phonological distribution and phonetic expressions in some Nordic dialects. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Från person till person : Avvecklingen av nordisk personkongruens ur ett diakront typologiskt perspektiv

    Författare :Adam Horn af Åminne; Margareta Svahn; David Håkansson; Hans-Olav Enger; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; diachronic typology; historical linguistics; dialectology; linguistic variation and change; morphology; person agreement; plural agreement; Nordic languages; Nordic dialects; Scandinavian; Swedish; Västergötland; Skåne; diakron typologi; språkhistoria; dialektologi; språklig variation och förändring; morfologi; personkongruens; pluralböjning; nordiska språk; nordiska dialekter; svenska; Västergötland; Skåne; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a study of the loss of person agreement in the Nordic languages from a diachronic typological perspective. The main purpose is to investigate the following question: When verbal person agreement is lost in a language, and up to six forms are reduced to one, which form will be the one remaining—and why?The study takes a comprehensive approach, covering three major angles: a general linguistic one, a diachronic Nordic one, and a synchronic dialectological Southwestern Swedish one. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Syntaktisk variation och förändring : en studie av subjektslösa satser i fornsvenska

    Författare :David Håkansson; Christer Platzack; Tor Anders Åfarli; tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning danska och isländska Avdelningen för svenska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; diachronic syntax; syntactic change; language variation; Old Swedish; referential subjects; null subjects; word order; information structure; verbal agreement; quantitative analysis; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk; information structure; word order; null subjects; referential subjects; Old Swedish; language variation; diachronic syntax; syntactic change; verbal agreement; quantitative analysis;

    Sammanfattning : The topic of this thesis is subjectless clauses in Old Swedish (1225–1526). The thesis focuses on referential subjects, and addresses the problem of why the possibilities to leave out such subjects have been reduced during the history of Swedish. The dissertation consists of three main parts, divided into eight chapters. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Word Order in Övdalian : A Study in Variation and Change

    Författare :Piotr Garbacz; tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning danska och isländska Avdelningen för svenska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Stylistic Fronting; V-to-I movement; Swedish dialects; dialect syntax; language change; variation; älvdalsmålet; Övdalian; Elfdalian; the Rich Agreement Hypothesis; negative concord;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation discusses aspects of the syntax of Övdalian, a variety spoken by ca. 2,500 people in the province of Dalecarlia in Sweden. LÄS MER