Sökning: "Bantu languages"

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  1. 6. Phasal Polarity Systems in East Bantu

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Althea Löfgren; [2018]
    Nyckelord :aspect; Bantu languages; phasal polarity; tense;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores a category of expressions akin to not yet, already, still and no longer, called Phasal Polarity (PhP) expressions. They encode the domains of phasal values, polarity and speaker expectations and have previously been described in European languages (van der Auwera 1998) and in a small, genealogically diverse sample (van Baar 1997). LÄS MER

  3. 7. Grammatical gender in New Guinea

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Erik Svärd; [2015]
    Nyckelord :agreement; grammatical gender; indexation; New Guinea; Papuan languages; typology; grammatiskt genus; indexering; kongruens; Nya Guinea; papuanska språk; typologi;

    Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the gender systems of 20 languages in the New Guinea region, an often overlooked area in typological research. The languages were classified with five criteria used by Di Garbo (2014) to classify gender systems of African languages. LÄS MER

  4. 8. English as a Second Language for Kenyan Children in Primary School : A Trial of the Spoken Language Assessment Profile – Revised Edition

    Magister-uppsats, Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för klinisk och experimentell medicin; Linköpings universitet/Medicinska fakulteten

    Författare :Therése Karlsson; Hanna Lawrence; [2015]
    Nyckelord :SLAP-R; Kenya; children; primary school; phonology; semantics; grammar; expressive; receptive; English L2; SLAP-R; Kenya; barn; grundskola; fonologi; semantik; grammatik; expressiv; receptiv; engelska som andraspråk;

    Sammanfattning : Sub-Saharan Africa is a multilingual environment and there is a lack of materials available for speech and language assessment in this area (Hartley & Krämer, 2013). The norms for assessment material cannot be used for both monolinguals and bilinguals, since bilinguals may have different levels of knowledge in their languages (Kohnert, 2010). LÄS MER

  5. 9. Space and time in Mmen

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Signe Nilsson; [2013]
    Nyckelord :semantics; temporal relations; prepositions; spatial relations; bantu languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis provides an analysis of the linguistic expression of spatial and temporal relations in Mmen, a Niger-Congo language spoken in Bafumen, in the North West Region of Cameroon. Linguistic means of expressing spatial relations are surveyed in usage and in grammatical structure, and categorized according to the patterns found. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Contact induced change in Bena (G63) – A study of ‘swahilization’ in a Tanzanian vernacular language

    Magister-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Rasmus Bernander; [2012-10-12]
    Nyckelord :African languages; Bantu; Bena; Swahili; contact linguistics; contact induced change; unequal bilingualism; swahilization ; vocabulary; loanwords; borrowing;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to describe how Swahili is influencing the vocabulary of Bena (G63), one of the vernacular languages of Tanzania. The paper is written within the field of contact linguistics and relies on theories on how the linguistic outcome of the dis-empowered language is affected in an intense and unequal language contact situation. LÄS MER