Essays about: "Uralic languages"

Found 3 essays containing the words Uralic languages.

  1. 1. A typological description of Celtic and Uralic consonant mutations : Towards a full typological overview of consonant mutations

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Elis Hellmark; [2021]
    Keywords : consonant mutation; consonant gradation; canonical typology; morphophonology; Celtic languages; Uralic languages;

    Abstract : This thesis produces a definition of consonant mutations, a hitherto relatively unexplored phenomenon in typology, using a sample of languages from the Celtic and Uralic languages. It is defined using Canonical Typology. READ MORE

  3. 2. Multilingual Dependency Parsing of Uralic Languages : Parsing with zero-shot transfer and cross-lingual models using geographically proximate, genealogically related, and syntactically similar transfer languages

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Elsa Erenmalm; [2020]
    Keywords : dependency parsing; multilingual; zero-shot; transfer learning; uralic;

    Abstract : One way to improve dependency parsing scores for low-resource languages is to make use of existing resources from other closely related or otherwise similar languages. In this paper, we look at eleven Uralic target languages (Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, Karelian, Livvi, Komi Zyrian, Komi Permyak, Moksha, Erzya, North Sámi, and Skolt Sámi) with treebanks of varying sizes and select transfer languages based on geographical, genealogical, and syntactic distances. READ MORE

  4. 3. Quantifying loanwords: A study of borrowability in the Finnish lexicon

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

    Author : Sandra Cronhamn; [2018]
    Keywords : loanwords; Finnish; Uralic languages; language contact; borrowing; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The current study set out to investigate patterns of loanwords in a sample of 1,460 lexical meanings in the Finnish lexicon by means of quantitative methods. The methodology used was borrowed from the Loanword Typology project (Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009a), and consisted of a template including various fields, where information about each lexical item was coded. READ MORE