Sökning: "Austronesian languages"

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  1. 1. So close and yet so different: Reconstructing the phonological history of three Southern New Caledonian languages

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :William Zetterberg; [2021]
    Nyckelord :Historical linguistics; Comparative method; Reconstruction; Sound change; Phonology; Austronesian; Oceanic; Contact linguistics; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the phonological history of three languages spoken in southern New Caledonia: Aji�, T�r�, and X�r�c��. New Caledonia is an overseas special collectivity of France, located in the Southwest Pacific Ocean, which is home to a remarkable linguistic diversity, with around 28 distinct indigenous languages varieties spoken today. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Rembong-Wangka : Its position among the Manggaraic languages, some formative elements and adnominal possession

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Leif Asplund; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Rembong-Wangka; Manggaraic; Flores; enclitics; possession; etymology; rembong-wangka; manggaraiska; Flores; enklitikor; ägande; etymologi;

    Sammanfattning : Rembong-Wangka is an Austronesian language, which together with other little described languages, belongs to the Manggaraic subgroup of Austronesian. One aim is to present information about them, as well as other languages in the area, drawn from not readily accessible sources, including archival material, and information collected by the author in Flores. LÄS MER

  4. 3. NOT YET-Constructions in the Swedish Skellefteå Dialect

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Jill Zachrisson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Nondum; Phasal Polarity; speaker expectations; Westrobothnian; Swedish;

    Sammanfattning : Expressions such as not yet, already, still and no longer belong to a category called Phasal Polarity (Phasal Polarity), and express phase, polarity and speaker expectations. In European languages, these often appear as phasal adverbs. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Selected topics in the phonology and morphosyntaxof Laboya : A field study

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Allahverdi Verdizade; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Austronesian languages; Indonesia; Sumba; Laboya; Lamboya; clitics; Austronesiska språk; Indonesien; Sumba; Laboja; Lamboja; klitikor; Bahasa Austronesia; Indonesia; Sumba; Lamboya; Laboya; klitik;

    Sammanfattning : The present study investigates selected topics in the phonology and morpho-syntax of Laboya, a largely undescribed Austronesian language of Sumba island in eastern Indonesia. The study was carried out during nine weeks of field work. The language data is comprised by collected questionnaires and free narratives. LÄS MER

  7. 5. A grammar sketch of North Tanna

    Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Författare :Kristin Sverredal; [2018]
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    Sammanfattning : This master's thesis is a sketch grammar of the Austronesian North Tanna language of Vanuatu. The analysis is based on translations of a North Tanna and English version of the New Testament. This work is also an evaluation and experiment of using Bible translation as a primary source for investigating the grammatical features of a language. LÄS MER