Essays about: "lexical item"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words lexical item.

  1. 1. On indirectivity in Azeri : A discourse-analytical study of the functions of {-mỊš}/{-(y)ỊB-DỊ(r)} and {Ị-mỊš} in South Azeri varieties

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Frida Larsson Taghizadeh; [2023]
    Keywords : Turkic languages; Azeri; evidentiality; indirectivity; discourse types;

    Abstract : Johanson (2003: 274) refers to the grammatical categories of evidentiality found in Turkiclanguages as indirectivity, characterised “by reference to its reception by a conscious subject”.The East Old Turkic post-terminal verbal item in -miš and copula particle in ermiš are theoldest known markers of indirectivity in Turkic and have been morphologically preserved inthe West Oghuz languages. READ MORE

  3. 2. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Andreas Johansson; [2022]
    Keywords : corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

    Abstract : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. 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

  5. 4. Colexification and semantic change in colour terms in Sino-Tibetan and Indo-European languages

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Kajsa Söderqvist; [2017]
    Keywords : colour terms; semantic change; etymology; lexical semantic change; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Colour terms is a highly interesting field when investigating linguistic universals and how language vary cross-linguistically. Colour semantics, the investigation of the meaning of colour, consists in largely of two opposing sides: the universalists, proposing that colour terms are universal (Berlin & Kay 1969) and the relativists claiming a variation in meaning cross-linguistically (Wierzbicka 2008). READ MORE

  6. 5. Beauty and the Blend : Implications of Cognitive Constraints and Word Class Distribution in Lexical Blending

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Daniel Kjellander; [2015]
    Keywords : Blending; wordplay; word formation; morphology.;

    Abstract : This master thesis investigates underlying principles and usage-based aspects of lexical blending. In a corpus study examining the lexical items, or matrix words, republican, liberal, and vegetarian it was found that there were three cognitive constraints influencing their potential to form blends. READ MORE