Essays about: "tense marking"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words tense marking.
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1. Revisiting parts of the verb in Southern Nambikwara: Towards a definition of subjectivity as a grammatical category
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This study investigates verb-final morphemes in Southern Nambikwara — a polysynthetic language spoken in the Mato Grosso region of southwestern Brazil. The verb-final morphemes -wa2 and -ɾa2/-la2 have previously been described as denoting an aspect distinction between imperfectivity and perfectivity (da Silva 2021; B. Kroeker 1982; M. READ MORE
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2. A new evidential in Turkish? The online use and interpretation of –mışımdır and –ıyorumdur marked sentences
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : The Turkish tense-aspect-modality system and its complexity has been the topic of many previous studies (Csato, 2000; Johanson, 2016; Slobin & Aksu, 1982) and there are many arguments on whether some of the tense-aspect-modality markers should be categorized as such in the first place, as well as what they express when used in combination with different grammatical markers. This thesis focuses on two sentence types; (i) those that have predicates marked by the primarily evidentiality marking –mış and (ii) those marked by the imperfective marking –ıyor. READ MORE
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3. THE PROSODY OF TENSE MARKING IN TEKE-EBOO. A Bantu B70 language of Congo-Brazzaville
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Teke-Eboo is a Bantu B70 language spoken in Congo-Brazzaville, which displays complex tone melodies combining grammatical tone, subject agreement tone and lexical tone on verbs. This study of tense marking in Eboo identifies the tones which mark the recent past, general past and future tenses, and shows how the underlying high-low (H-L) contrastive tone system adds both downstepped H and mid (M) tones in surface realisations. READ MORE
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4. Can elicited imitation be used to measure grammatical development : a cross-sectional study of L2 Swedish within the framework of the Processability Theory
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : Abstract The aim of the thesis was to examine whether or not the elicited imitation test can be used as a valid tool for measuring developmental sequences of grammatical structures in the production of L2 Swedish derived from the Processability Theory (PT, Pienemann, 1998). The thesis aimed to answer the following questions: Will the participants follow the predicted implicational pattern of the developmental stages of PT in both the elicited data and the free production data? If they do not, are there any differences between the participants’ results of the elicited data and the free production data? Are there any participants who can process a later stage without a prerequisite stage in the two sets of data? The elicited data was collected by recording nine L2-learners of Swedish imitating 29 model sentences pre-recorded by an L1-speaker of Swedish. READ MORE
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5. Fusion, exponence, and flexivity in Hindukush languages : An areal-typological study
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : Surrounding the Hindukush mountain chain is a stretch of land where as many as 50 distinct languages varieties of several language meet, in the present study referred to as “The Greater Hindukush” (GHK). In this area a large number of languages of at least six genera are spoken in a multi-linguistic setting. READ MORE
