Sökning: "structural linguistics"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 37 avhandlingar innehållade orden structural linguistics.
1. Temporal and co-varying clause combining in Austronesian languages : Semantics, morpho-syntax and distributional patterns
Sammanfattning : This study investigates combined clause constructions for ten distinct semantic relations in a cross-section of Austronesian languages. The relations are of a temporal or co-varying nature, the former commonly expressed in English by such markers as when, then, until, etc. and the latter by if, so, because, etc. LÄS MER
2. Hermeneutik och grammatik : Fenomenologiska undersökningar av språket som tal och teknik
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a phenomenological investigation into the differences and similarities between language as speech and language as a technique. Speech is the practice of producing and understanding utterances. A technique is the organizing mechanism of speech, the structure that gives it a regular form. LÄS MER
3. Ambiguity at work : lexical blends in an American English web news context
Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the word formation process of lexical blending in the context of written US web news between January 2010–March 2018. The study has two interrelated aims. First, it aims to develop a transparent, rigid, and replicable method of data collection. LÄS MER
4. Language contact and structural change : An Old Finnish case study
Sammanfattning : The object of this study is to shed new light on both the influence exerted on Finnish by the Swedish language, and on the mechanisms by which language contact in structural domains takes place. It is argued that syntactic borrowing should be regarded as a subtype of reanalysis and extension rather than as an independent mechanism. LÄS MER
5. Sentential Object Complements in Modern Standard Arabic
Sammanfattning : This dissertation comprises a corpus-based study of the form and function of sentential object complements in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The study is motivated by the scarcity of investigations into MSA syntax as opposed to the syntax of Classical Arabic. LÄS MER