Essays about: "Grammars"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 40 essays containing the word Grammars.

  1. 6. 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 språkvetenskap

    Author : Selcuk Defne Kartal; [2021]
    Keywords : sociolinguistics; Turkish grammar; language change; age variation; gender; evidentiality; Turkish language; social media; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : 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

  2. 7. Grapheme-to-phoneme transcription of English words in Icelandic text

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Bjarki Ármannsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Foreign word grapheme-to-phoneme transcription; TTS; text-to-speech; Icelandic; Icelandic phonology; g2p; foreign word g2p;

    Abstract : Foreign words, such as names, locations or sometimes entire phrases, are a problem for any system that is meant to convert graphemes to phonemes (g2p; i.e.converting written text into phonetic transcription). READ MORE

  3. 8. 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

  4. 9. 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

  5. 10. 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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