Essays about: "typological feature"

Found 5 essays containing the words typological feature.

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

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

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

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Michaela Loukia Litsardaki; [2021]
    Keywords : balconies; coronavirus; pandemic; public space; collective initiatives;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

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

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

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

    Abstract : Polarity questions, i.e. questions that demand as an answer either an affirmation or a denial (e.g. READ MORE

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

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

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

    University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

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

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE