Essays about: "lexical typology"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 15 essays containing the words lexical typology.

  1. 11. Nominal plurality in languages of the Greater Hindukush

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Noa Lange; [2015]
    Keywords : nominal plurality; areal typology; Hindukush; obligatoriness; optionality; nominal pluralitet; arealtypologi; Hindukush; markeringstvång; optionalitet;

    Abstract : The Greater Hindukush is an area that stretches from northwestern–central Afghanistan, through Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Gilgit–Baltistan of Pakistan and to Kashmir in northwestern India. It is home to some fifty languages of various genera including Indo-Aryan, Iranian, Nuristani, Tibeto- Burman, Turkic and the isolate Burushaski. READ MORE

  3. 12. Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Robert Farren; [2014]
    Keywords : Irish; Middle Irish; Old Norse; loanwords; semantic domains; lexical borrowing; Vikings; prototypicality; radial networks; semantic change.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study questions the received wisdom that surviving Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish are fewer than 50 in number and are mostly shipping-related. The eventual goal is a complete survey of all Old Norse loanwords still “in common use in modern Irish” (Greene 1976: 80), since nothing of the sort has been found in the literature. READ MORE

  4. 13. Two Millennia of Lexical and Typological Change in Western Europe - a quantitative approach

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

    Author : Filip Larsson; [2013]
    Keywords : Lexicology; typology; historical linguistics; Western Europe; Indo-European; Celtic; Germanic; Romance; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to examine the lexical and typological change found in the Western European language families of Germanic, Romance and Celtic over the last two millennia. The method used was to create one lexical and one typological database and the data was analysed according to etic grids. READ MORE

  5. 14. Breaking paradigms : A typological study of nominal and adjectival suppletion

    University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Ghazaleh Vafaeian; [2010]
    Keywords : Nominal suppletion; adjectival suppletion; morphology; typology; the Semitic language family; relevance hierarchy; semantic; inflection; derivation; word-formation; frequency; economy;

    Abstract : Suppletion is a term used to describe the occurrence of unpredictable and irregular patterns. Although typological research has been devoted to verb suppletion, not as much attention has been given to suppletion in nominal and adjectival paradigms. The thesis presents the cross-linguistic distribution of nominal and adjectival suppletion. READ MORE

  6. 15. M.A. Thesis: Theoretical implications of schwa deletion in French

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Merle Horne; [1976]
    Keywords : e-muet; Latin; historical phonology; French; schwa; vowel reduction; sound change; variable rules; phonotactics; syncope; diachronic change; stress; natural rule; Old French; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The phonological status and behaviour of schwa ('e-caduc') constitues one of the most widely investigated topics in the synchronic study of French phonology. A considerable amount of research is directed towards the attempt to account for the phonetic level alternatin of schwa with zero in certain environments. READ MORE