Sökning: "typological feature"

Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden typological feature.

  1. 1. Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features

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

    Författare :Barbara Bakker; [2023-08-16]
    Nyckelord :Standard Arabic; Scottish Gaelic; Semitic; Celtic; substrate hypothesis; contact theory; structural similarity; typological feature; typological universals;

    Sammanfattning : Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. The occurrence and the reasons for these similarities have been the focus of a whole research field, concerned with linguistic, historical, and anthropological hypotheses about possible reasons for said similarities, as well as with linguistic analyses and comparisons of specific Celtic and Semitic languages, such as Hebrew, Welsh and Breton. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Balco(n)vid-19 : The use and the importance of balconies before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Magister-uppsats, KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Författare :Michaela Loukia Litsardaki; [2021]
    Nyckelord :balconies; coronavirus; pandemic; public space; collective initiatives;

    Sammanfattning : To mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic, unthinkable restrictions and measures were enforced. In a few weeks’ time, the greatest part of the global population went under strict lockdown policies. In this new reality, Italians took advantage of their balconies and started engaging in collective actions of communal and national solidarity. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Answers to Polarity Questions : A Typological Study

    Magister-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Författare :Elena Vera Moser; [2018]
    Nyckelord :polarity questions; yes-no questions; typology; polarity; polaritetsfrågor; ja nej-frågor; typologi; polaritet;

    Sammanfattning : Polarity questions, i.e. questions that demand as an answer either an affirmation or a denial (e.g. LÄS MER

  5. 4. She seldoms to what? An investigation into adverbial verbs and interrogative verbs in verb-initial languages

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

    Författare :Victor Bogren Svensson; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Adverbial verbs; interrogative verbs; verb-initial languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Adverbial verbs and interrogative verbs are two relatively rare and underexplored linguistic phenomena that are investigated in this typological study. Adverbial verbs are verbal constituents that possess the morphosyntactic properties of verbs but that encode manner and temporal information, instead of referring to states or events as verbs prototypically do. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Breaking paradigms : A typological study of nominal and adjectival suppletion

    Master-uppsats, Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Författare :Ghazaleh Vafaeian; [2010]
    Nyckelord :Nominal suppletion; adjectival suppletion; morphology; typology; the Semitic language family; relevance hierarchy; semantic; inflection; derivation; word-formation; frequency; economy;

    Sammanfattning : Suppletion is a term used to describe the occurrence of unpredictable and irregular patterns. Although typological research has been devoted to verb suppletion, not as much attention has been given to suppletion in nominal and adjectival paradigms. The thesis presents the cross-linguistic distribution of nominal and adjectival suppletion. LÄS MER