Sökning: "Indo-Aryan languages"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 16 uppsatser innehållade orden Indo-Aryan languages.

1. 11. Demonstrative contrasts in Hindukush Indo-Aryan

   Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

   Författare :Noa Lange; [2016]
   Nyckelord :Demonstrative; Hindukush Indo-Aryan; invisible; areal typology; The Greater Hindukush; Demonstrativor; Hindukush-indoariska; osynlig; arealtypologi; The Greater Hindukush;

   Sammanfattning : 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

3. 12. 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

4. 13. Nominal plurality in languages of the Greater Hindukush

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Författare :Noa Lange; [2015]
   Nyckelord :nominal plurality; areal typology; Hindukush; obligatoriness; optionality; nominal pluralitet; arealtypologi; Hindukush; markeringstvång; optionalitet;

   Sammanfattning : The Greater Hindukush is an area that stretches from northwestern–central Afghanistan, through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit–Baltistan of Pakistan and to Kashmir in northwestern India. It is home to some fifty languages of various genera including Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Nuristani, Tibeto- Burman, Turkic and the isolate Burushaski. LÄS MER

5. 14. Discourse Markers in Dardic Languages : Palula ba and ta in a comparative perspective

   Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Författare :Erik Svärd; [2014]
   Nyckelord :Dardic; Indo-Aryan; Chitral; Palula; Dameli; discourse; topic; conjunctions; Shina; Kohistani; dardiska; indoariska; Chitral; palula; dameli; diskurs; topik; konjunktioner; shina; kohistani;

   Sammanfattning : The present study investigates discourse markers in Dardic languages (Indo-Aryan; Pakistan), focusing on the discourse markers ba and ta in Palula in comparison with other languages of the region, particularly Dameli in which two markers with the same form and similar functions have been observed. The results showed that Palula ba functions as a topic-marker, in addition to other functions, whereas ta only signals subsequence, except in an adversative construction ta. LÄS MER

7. 15. From left to right and back again : The distribution of dependent clauses in the Hindukush

   Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Författare :Hanna Rönnqvist; [2014]
   Nyckelord :Hindukush; Dardic; Gawri; Palula; Gilgiti Shina; Kalasha; dependent clauses; adverbial clauses; complement clauses; Hindukush; dardiska språk; gawri; palula; gilgiti shina; kalasha; underordnande satser; adverbiella bisatser; nominalsatser;

   Sammanfattning : In complex clause constructions, the dependent clause can either precede or succeed the main clause. In a study on a selection of Indo-Aryan languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent (Hook 1987), a gradual transition between pre- and postposing languages was found, when moving from the southeast to the northwest in the area. LÄS MER