Sökning: "bantu languages"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 13 uppsatser innehållade orden bantu languages.

  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. Phasal Polarity in Swahili

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Författare :Aron Zahran; [2021-09-01]
    Nyckelord :Swahili; Bantu languages; phasal polarity; tense; aspect; grammaticalization;

    Sammanfattning : This scope of this essay is to investigate and systematically describe a set of linguistic items in Swahili expressing Phasal Polarity (PhP), i.e. the notions of ‘NOT YET’, ‘ALREADY, ‘STILL’, and ‘NO LONGER’. LÄS MER

  4. 3. NOT YET-Constructions in the Swedish Skellefteå Dialect

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Jill Zachrisson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Nondum; Phasal Polarity; speaker expectations; Westrobothnian; Swedish;

    Sammanfattning : Expressions such as not yet, already, still and no longer belong to a category called Phasal Polarity (Phasal Polarity), and express phase, polarity and speaker expectations. In European languages, these often appear as phasal adverbs. LÄS MER

  5. 4. A ALTERNÂNCIA DAS FORMAS SUBJUNTIVO E INDICATIVO DO PORTUGUÊS FALADO EM MAPUTO : UMA ANÁLISE DE VARIAÇÃO DE UM CORPUS DE 2007

    Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Portugisiska

    Författare :Fanny Holgersson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :SUBJUNCTIVE; MOZAMBICAN PORTUGUESE; VARIATIONIST ANALYSIS; SUBJUNTIVO; PORTUGUÊS MOÇAMBICANO; ANÁLISE VARIACIONISTA;

    Sammanfattning : A aplica��o do subjuntivo portugu�s falado em Maputo, Mo�ambique, � avaliada neste estudo variacionista, utilizando um corpus baseado em 20 entrevistas semiestruturadas de 2007. O objetivo da investiga��o � identificar e procurar explica��es para a altern�ncia do modo subjuntivo, avaliando efeitos potenciais de tend�ncias de simplifica��o e o contato lingu�stico com as l�nguas bantu Ronga e Changana. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Phasal Polarity in Bantu Languages : A typological study

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Althea Löfgren; [2019]
    Nyckelord :aspect; bantu; phasal polarity; tense;

    Sammanfattning : This study explores a category of expressions akin to not yet, already, still and no longer, called PhasalPolarity (PhP) expressions and builds on the work of Löfgren (2018). PhP expressions encode the domainsof phasal values, polarity and speaker expectations and have previously been described in Europeanlanguages (van der Auwera: 1998) and in a small, genealogically diverse sample (van Baar: 1997). LÄS MER