Sökning: "diachronic typology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 6 avhandlingar innehållade orden diachronic typology.

  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. 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

  4. 3. 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

  5. 4. The Sango Language and Its Lexicon (S�nd�-y�ng� t� S�ng�)

    Författare :Christina Thornell; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Linguistics; lexical semantics; lexicology; language planning; language contact; functional linguistics; language typology; Ubangi language; pidgin creole; Sango; Central African Republic; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation is an overview of the recently arisen Sango language spoken in the Central African Republic. The overview contains a sociolinguistic and linguistic dimension with a lexical-semantic focus. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Loco ubi dicitur... “La toponomastica di Vallebona e dintorni” : Un territorio di confine tra Liguria e Provenza

    Författare :Riccardo Guglielmi; Italienska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; onomastics; Italian; dialectology; Vallebona; proper names; Liguria; place name; toponymy; microtoponyms; cultural heritage; etymology; rural landscape; ethnography; language area; toponymy recording; place identity; toponymization; toponymic suffixes; diachronic and synchronic perspective; toponymic functions; toponymic competence; toponym constituent; modern and historical sources; historical-linguistic.;

    Sammanfattning : As a special part of our cultural heritage, toponyms have been handed down orally from generation to generation for centuries or more at the place where they were coined, recalling events, activities and knowledge. Especially where written documentation is relatively young, place names offer a way to reach further back into the past. LÄS MER