Essays about: "Anu Vastenius"
Found 2 essays containing the words Anu Vastenius.
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1. Constituent order in non-verbal representations: Describing events with pictures by speakers of Swedish and Kurdish
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : In this thesis the question concerning possible influence of language on thinking was addressed by investigating constituent orders in non-verbal representations of motion events. Forty-nine participants, 25 native speakers of Swedish with the default order SVO (or Agent-Act-Patient), and Kurdish with SOV (Agent-Patient-Act) were recruited in Sweden and 24 in Iraqi Kurdistan to take part in an experiment. READ MORE
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2. Expressive Particles in Serbian, Bulgarian, Greek and Kurdish
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : A common feature in the Balkan Sprachbund is the use of expressive particles, such as bre, be, vre, re, more, mori and ma in colloquial speech. In some sources the origin of the particles has been claimed to be the Greek moros, 'moron'. READ MORE