Essays about: "Grammars"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 33 essays containing the word Grammars.

  1. 1. Goal and source in South American languages

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Emilia Roosvall; [2020]
    Keywords : goal; source; South American languages; motion events; linguistic typology;

    Abstract : This study primarily investigates the expression of two local roles, goal and source, in South American languages. Local roles describe the direction of movement or locatedness in relation to a physical object, a ground, in a motion event. READ MORE

  3. 2. A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Omagua–Kokama–Tupinambá

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

    Author : Olof Lundgren; [2020]
    Keywords : Omagua; Kokama; Tupinambá; Tupí–Guaraní; historical linguistics; comparative linguistics; contact linguistics; phonology; creole languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Las lenguas omagua [omg] y kokama [cod] de la familia tupí–guaraní constituyen ejemplos interesantes de contacto lingüístico en Amazonia. Esto es evidente de su léxico que es mayormente tupí–guaraní, con un gran porcentaje de formas no-tupí–guaraní, y la gramática, que es muy distinta de otras lenguas tupí–guaraní. READ MORE

  4. 3. Evaluation of Parser Generators for Combined Grammars

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Filip Johansson; [2020]
    Keywords : Technology and Engineering;

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  5. 4. Narrative and Gender: Similarities and differences in written narratives produced from same- and opposite-gender perspective in Modern Greek

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Grekiska (nygrekiska)

    Author : Lambrini Kokkali; [2020]
    Keywords : discourse analysis; gender representation; males; females; Greek language; Greek society; narrative text; picture-story; stereotypes; story-grammars; storytelling; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Narrative and gender are both notions closely connected to culture and society. Narrative, on the one hand, is not just the art of telling stories, it carries deeper meanings, evokes feelings, and even affects our actions and interactions with one another. READ MORE

  6. 5. Phasal Polarity in Bantu Languages : A typological study

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Althea Löfgren; [2019]
    Keywords : aspect; bantu; phasal polarity; tense;

    Abstract : This study explores a category of expressions akin to not yet, already, still and no longer, called PhasalPolarity (PhP) expressions and builds on the work of Löfgren (2018). PhP expressions encode the domainsof phasal values, polarity and speaker expectations and have previously been described in Europeanlanguages (van der Auwera: 1998) and in a small, genealogically diverse sample (van Baar: 1997). READ MORE