Essays about: "Grammatical gender"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 28 essays containing the words Grammatical gender.

  1. 21. Noun categorisation in North Halmahera

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Leif Asplund; [2015]
    Keywords : Noun categorisation; North Halmahera languages; numeral classifiers; numerals; gender.; Substantivkategorisering; Nord-Halmahera-språk; numeriska klassificerare; räkneord; genus.;

    Abstract : The languages spoken on northern Halmahera and surrounding small islands constitute a group of related ‘Papuan’ languages called North Halmahera. They are also, together with other Papuan and Austronesian languages, included in a proposed sprachbund which is called East Nusantara. READ MORE

  3. 22. Attitudes Towards and Uses of the Japanese Adverbzenzen by Swedish Learners of Japanese

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Jonas Wallgren; [2015]
    Keywords : linguistics; second language acquisition; word usage; adverb; language variation;

    Abstract : The word zenzen is an adverb that is used frequently in daily conversational Japanese. From the Meiji period (1868-1912) until the early Showa period (1924-1989) the word was used together with both affirmative and negative words to form expressions. READ MORE

  4. 23. Grammatical gender in New Guinea

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Erik Svärd; [2015]
    Keywords : agreement; grammatical gender; indexation; New Guinea; Papuan languages; typology; grammatiskt genus; indexering; kongruens; Nya Guinea; papuanska språk; typologi;

    Abstract : The present study investigates the gender systems of 20 languages in the New Guinea region, an often overlooked area in typological research. The languages were classified with five criteria used by Di Garbo (2014) to classify gender systems of African languages. READ MORE

  5. 24. Français Tirailleur : - A Corpus Study

    University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Hedvig Skirgård; [2013]
    Keywords : francais; tirailleur; pidgin; west africa; senegal; tirailleur senegalais; lucie cousturier; mangin;

    Abstract : Français Tirailleur (FT) är ett pidginspråk som talades av västafrikanska soldateroch deras vita officerare i den franska kolonialarmen cirka 1857-1954. Den häruppsatser beskriver denna språkvatietet utifrån ett korpus som består av de dokumenteradeyttranden som hittills hittats. READ MORE

  6. 25. Non-Standard English in Children’s Movies: A Gender Perspective

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Ida Wilson; [2012-06-30]
    Keywords : gender; gender-related variation; phonological and grammatical variables; non-standard English; media; children; sociolinguistics;

    Abstract : Sociolinguists have repeatedly demonstrated that men use more nonstandard forms of English than women do and that this gender-related variation develops in early childhood. The present study has investigated whether these differences are reflected in gender-oriented movies targeting young children. READ MORE