Sökning: "Hindukush"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 8 uppsatser innehållade ordet Hindukush.
1. A grammar sketch of Sauji : An Indo-Aryan language of Afghanistan
Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskapSammanfattning : This study presents selected features in the phonology and grammar of Sauji, an Indo-Aryan language spoken in a village in the Kunar province in north-eastern Afghanistan. Sauji belongs to a cluster of (western) Shina languages - a subgroup of the Hindukush Indo-Aryan languages, which are spoken in large parts of northernmost Pakistan, north-eastern Afghanistan, and the disputed Kashmir region. LÄS MER
2. Distance and visibility in Gawri demonstratives
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikSammanfattning : This is a study of demonstratives in Gawri [ISO 639-3: gwc] (Hindukush Indo-Aryan, HKIA), based on field data collected in Islamabad, Pakistan during the winter of 2016–2017. Previous studies of HKIA languages report systems of third-person pronouns with a three-way demonstrative contrast – two terms distinguishing between proximal and distal referents, and one used with accessible referents out of sight. LÄS MER
3. Grammatical gender in Hindukush languages : An areal-typological study
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikSammanfattning : In the mountainous area of the Greater Hindukush in northern Pakistan, north-western Afghanistan and Kashmir, some fifty languages from six different genera are spoken. The languages are at the same time innovative and archaic, and are of great interest for areal-typological research. LÄS MER
4. Demonstrative contrasts in Hindukush Indo-Aryan
Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikSammanfattning : Hindukush Indo-Aryan (HKIA) is a disputed subgroup of Indo-Aryan languages spoken within a linguistically diverse area stretching from northeastern Afghanistan, across northern Pakistan to northwestern India, principally covering the mountainous region of Hindukush–Karakoram–Western Himalaya. A noteworthy feature of some of these languages is a three-way demonstrative system, or three deictic terms used by speakers to direct one another’s attention to referents at different distances in their environment. LÄS MER
5. Fusion, exponence, and flexivity in Hindukush languages : An areal-typological study
Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskapSammanfattning : Surrounding the Hindukush mountain chain is a stretch of land where as many as 50 distinct languages varieties of several language meet, in the present study referred to as “The Greater Hindukush” (GHK). In this area a large number of languages of at least six genera are spoken in a multi-linguistic setting. LÄS MER