Sökning: "borrowability"

Hittade 3 uppsatser innehållade ordet borrowability.

  1. 1. Konvergens och grammatiska lån i minoritetsspråk till följd av långvarig språkkontakt : en jämförelse av nahuatl, ainu och romansh.

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för lingvistik och kognitiv semiotik; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Hilda Appelgren; [2021]
    Nyckelord :language contact; borrowability; convergence; grammatical loans; minority languages; contact-induced change; comparative linguistics; nahuatl; ainu; romansh; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Language contact poses many questions in regards to language change, one of which is the question of whether some features are more easily transferable between languages than others. Previous research has mainly focused on either areal features in so-called Sprachbunds in large quantitative studies, or single language situations. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Quantifying loanwords: A study of borrowability in the Finnish lexicon

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

    Författare :Sandra Cronhamn; [2018]
    Nyckelord :loanwords; Finnish; Uralic languages; language contact; borrowing; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : The current study set out to investigate patterns of loanwords in a sample of 1,460 lexical meanings in the Finnish lexicon by means of quantitative methods. The methodology used was borrowed from the Loanword Typology project (Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009a), and consisted of a template including various fields, where information about each lexical item was coded. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The spread of cultural vocabulary in Rondônia

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Sandra Cronhamn; [2013]
    Nyckelord :Amazonia; Rondônia; borrowability; loanwords; areal diffusion; language contact; cultural vocabulary; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is an investigation of the borrowability of cultural vocabulary among languages of different genetic origin in the Brazilian state of Rondônia, one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world. Since cultural vocabulary is more likely to be borrowed compared to other lexical domains, if there has been language contact in this area, this is expected to be reflected in these terms. LÄS MER