Sökning: "Semantic typology"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 20 uppsatser innehållade orden Semantic typology.

  1. 1. ‘NOTHING IS IN VAIN': Non-Standard Negation and Cyclical Change in Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo

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

    Författare :Aron Zahran; [2023-10-31]
    Nyckelord :Engelska; Bantu; Morphosyntax; Historical Linguistics; Grammaticalization; Descriptive Linguistics; Typology; Negation; Possessive Predication; Locational Predication; Negative Existentials; Semantic Change;

    Sammanfattning : This work concerns the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of an item bule in the under described Tanzanian Bantu languages, Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo. Through collection and analysis of field data, it is shown that the original adverbial element bule ‘for free, in vain, for no reason’ has developed a wide range of functions within the domain of non-standard negation. LÄS MER

  3. 2. “An accidental heroine” : An Investigation of Gender Representation and Gender-based Stereotypes in Swedish Digital EFL Learning Material

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Malin Ångström; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Gender representation; gender-based stereotypes; digital learning material; semantic types.;

    Sammanfattning : The endeavour for gender equality and against gender-based patterns (stereotypes) are topics often discussed in relation to education. Correspondingly, extensive research on textbooks used in schools around the world has been conducted, some of which include the aspect of people beyond the binary. LÄS MER

  4. 3. 'In the moment' : A cross-linguistic exploration of the lexical concept [MOMENT]

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Arthur Mannheimer; [2023]
    Nyckelord :moment; lexical typology; lexical concept; cognitive model; semantic shift; now;

    Sammanfattning : Lexical typological studies examine how various languages express similar concepts. Previous research has discussed how the concept of moment is encoded lexically in English, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Egyptian. However, there are no cross-linguistic studies to date that collect data on the lexical expressions associated with the concept of moment. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Adjectives expressing sadness in Swedish and English : A contrastive lexical analysis

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Sandra Magni; [2023]
    Nyckelord :sadness; lexical typology; predicative; attributive; experiencer; stimulus; edsenhet; lexikal typologi; predikativ; attributiv; upplevare; stimulus;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines how Swedish and English adjectives relating to the semantic domain of SADNESS are used and what some of their semantic and syntactic characteristics are. The primary objectives of this study are to determine whether the adjectives in question are used more often attributively or predicatively, whether they are used more frequently along with the semantic role of stimulus or experiencer and whether there are any syntactic, semantic or lexical disparities in how Swedish and English encode the domain of SADNESS. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Verb-framed and satellite-framed patterns in Brazilian and European Portuguese

    Master-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Manú Castro Nilsson; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Portuguese; Motion events; Framing typology; Pleonasm;

    Sammanfattning : The goal of this work is to contribute to the understanding of the framing typological domain of motion events in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) through corpus analysis of intransitive pleonastic double Path constructions, which are constructions that express ‘the same’ trajectory in both the verb and its satellite. Data has been retrieved from the ptTenTen11 corpus. LÄS MER