Sökning: "word-formation"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 22 avhandlingar innehållade ordet word-formation.

  1. 1. 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

  3. 2. Modern Icelandic Word Formation

    Författare :Yair Sapir; Henrik Williams; Raimo Raag; Veturliði Óskarsson; Gunlög Josefsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Icelandic language; Icelandic; Scandinavian; word formation; morphology; neologisms; calque; language planning; language contact; linguistic purism; Isländska; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : Icelandic is known for its conservative word formation, largely involving native sources. The main focus of the present research is to describe which mechanisms are used in forming words in Modern Icelandic. Furthermore, a postulated additional category within Icelandic complexes, introduced here under the label compilations, is examined. LÄS MER

  4. 3. On the principles of word formation in Swedish

    Författare :Gunlög Josefsson; Svenska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Originator; Force; Telicity; Event measurer; LF-lexicon; PF-lexicon; List of Morphemes; Property; Thing; Event; prefix; major ontological categories; suffix; compound; derivation; linking element; asymmetry; Move; Merge; Generalized Transformations; word class; inflection;

    Sammanfattning : My thesis is an attempt to give a minimalist account of word formation in Swedish. (See Chomsky (1993) and (1994).) In the main part of my thesis I demonstrate how the proposed system accounts for the central aspects of Swedish word formation. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Ris, skäver och skärva : Folklig kategorisering av några barnsjukdomar ur ett kognitivt semantiskt perspektiv

    Författare :Asbjörg Westum; Lars-Erik Edlund; Gunilla Byrman; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages; Swedish dialects; cognitive semantics; folk categorization of illnesses; Idealized Cognitive Models; radial structure; concentrating structure; folk etiology; word formation; dialekter; barnsjukdomar; folkmedicin; Dialectology; Dialektforskning; Etnologi; Ethnology; Folklore; Folkloristik; Scandinavian languages; Scandinavian Languages; Swedish;

    Sammanfattning : In Swedish dialects we find the terms ris,skäver and skärva referring to illnesses in children. The words are also parts of various compounds which refer to variants of the illnesses. The terms are linguistic expressions denoting two folk categories of illnesses, RIS and SKÄVER/SKÄRVA. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Motiviertheit in der Wortbildung entlehnter Einheiten : Eine deskriptive Studie von Personenbezeichnungen mit Fremdsuffixen im Deutschen vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert

    Författare :Sibylle Dillström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; German language; word formation; motivation transparency ; foreign suffixes; words denoting persons; borrowing; lexicology; Tyska; German language; Tyska språket; German; tyska;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis looks from a historical perspective at the morphological-semantic motivation of words denoting persons with foreign suffixes that have been borrowed into and also formed in German, whereby, among other things, the role of motivation in relation to the borrowing and retention of lexical items is elucidated.In a theoretical section peculiarities and problems in the word formation of loan items are discussed, and motivation is defined as a synchronous-semantic category. LÄS MER