Essays about: "Kammu"
Found 3 essays containing the word Kammu.
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1. Signaling discourse structure: the marking of discourse topic boundaries in Jahai and Mah Meri spontaneous narratives
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This study has examined how the right edge of a discourse topic is signaled through the use of F0, duration, and particles in the two Aslian languages Jahai and Mah Meri. The goals of this study were to contribute to the knowledge of these languages, compare them to the related Kammu language in the search for similarities that could be applied to Austroasiatic as a whole, and to explore what kind of analysis is possible with a material not collected for prosodic research. READ MORE
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2. Body part terms in Kammu - A descriptive and comparative study
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This paper presents a survey of the body part domain in the Mon-Khmer language Kammu. The descriptive part of the paper consists of word lists with belonging discussions and illustrations. The two major systems of relations between body part terms are the hierarchical possessive system and the spatial system. READ MORE
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3. The semantic domains of numeral classifiers in Kammu
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This thesis aims at presenting the semantic domains of the numeral classifiers in Kammu by analysing the group of nouns that each classifier can be used with. As some alternations are possible due to semantic or pragmatic reasons these must be considered as well. READ MORE
