Essays about: "affixes"
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1. Contact-induced change and variation in Middle English morphology : A case study on get
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The present study explores the role of interlingual identification in contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English. The study focuses on the word get as it occurred throughout a selection of texts in the Middle English period. READ MORE
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2. Scope effects on linearization in polysynthetic languages
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This paper adopts a generative approach to investigating the influence of scope on linearization of affixes in polysynthetic languages. From a typological perspective, polysynthetic languages distinguish themselves morphosyntactically by being non-configurational, using noun incorporation, and by their ability to produce (near) one-word sentences by way of agglutinativity on verbs. READ MORE
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3. The Russian Verbal Prefix v- and Circumfix v- -sja in Space : A Contrastive Study between Russian and Swedish
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Slaviska språkAbstract : Den här studien undersöker det ryska verbprefixet v(o)- och cirkumfixet v(o)- -sja i det konkreta fysiska rummet. Syftet med den kontrastiva studien är att undersöka och beskriva betydelser. Tvåspråkig data från en samtida rysk-svensk ordbok analyseras med Krongauz metod. READ MORE
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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 språkvetenskapAbstract : 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
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5. New Chinese Words in 2014 – A Study of Word-formation Processes
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/KinesiskaAbstract : 随着社会的发展,尤其是互联网的发展,很多语言每年都涌现出了不少新词汇。词语是每个语言最基本也是最重要的组成部分,因此分析这些新词汇的结构特点以及构词法是很有意义的。这篇文章分析了2014年出现在中文里的新词汇和它们的构词方式,论文的目的是为了更好地了解中文词汇的发展和特点。本文以《2014汉语新词语》中公布的2014年出现的新词汇作为语料进行分析,发现了以下两个主要特点:第一,合成法,派生法,缩略法是2014年产生的新词汇的主要构词方式;第二, 百分之七十二的新词汇是多音节词(包含三个或者三个以上音节),而百分之八十的是名词。这些特点说明中文词汇现阶段的特点和发展趋势,跟传统的中文词汇有不同之处。 .. READ MORE