Sökning: "Tibeto-Burman"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 7 uppsatser innehållade ordet Tibeto-Burman.

  1. 1. Lexico-Semantic Areality in the Greater Hindu Kush : An Areal-Typological Study on Numerals and Kinship Terms

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Jacqueline Venetz; [2019]
    Nyckelord :Greater Hindu Kush; areal typology; lexical areality; numerals; kinship terms; Indo-Aryan; Iranian; Nuristani; Turkic; Tibeto-Burman; Burushaski;

    Sammanfattning : The Greater Hindu Kush designates a mountainous area extending from Afghanistan over Pakistan, Tajikistan and India to the westernmost parts of China. It is home to over 50 lan- guages from six different phyla; Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Nuristani, Turkic, Tibeto-Burman and the language isolate Burushaski. LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Use of the Copula in Non-Copula Constructions in the Languages of South Asia

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

    Författare :Anna Sjöberg; [2018]
    Nyckelord :south asia; linguistic area; typology; dravidian; munda; tibeto-burman; indo-aryan; copula;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis, I explore the use of copulas in non-copula constructions in the languages of South Asia to establish possible genetic and areal tendencies in the distribution. Using materials – language descriptions and data – from Grierson’s Linguistic Survey of India, I examine the phenomenon in 206 languages from four families (Munda, Dravidian, Indo-Aryan and Sino-Tibetan). LÄS MER

  4. 3. Kinship terminology in the greater Hindu Kush

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Jane Ogawa; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Kinship terms; Hindu Kush; areal semantics; lexical typology;

    Sammanfattning : This is a study of the kinship terminology used for one’s parents and their siblings in the languages in the greater Hindu Kush area (GHK). GHK stretches over the mountainous borderlands of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, China and India and homes a range of various languages from six different genera, Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Nuristani, Turkic, Tibeto-Burman, and the language isolate Burushaski. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Fusion, exponence, and flexivity in Hindukush languages : An areal-typological study

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Hanna Rönnqvist; [2015]
    Nyckelord :Hindukush; language contact; areal typology; morphological typology; Indo-Aryan; Iranian; Nuristani; Turkic; Tibeto-Burman; Burushaski;

    Sammanfattning : 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

  7. 5. A comparative study of egophoric marking : Investigating its relation to person and epistemic marking in three language families

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Dominique Knuchel; [2015]
    Nyckelord :egophoricity; person indexing; epistemic marking; Tibeto-Burman; Barbacoan; Nakh-Daghestanian; egoforicitet; personböjning; epistemiska markörer; Barbacoanska; Nakh-Daghestanska; Tibetoburmesiska;

    Sammanfattning : Egophoric marking as a potentially categorical expression in language is conceived of as a binary semantic contrast that marks an event as either involving one of the speech act participants (egophoric), or as one that does not (non-egophoric). Prima facie, the egophoric marking pattern resembles person indexing and has been interpreted as such. LÄS MER