Essays about: "morphology in linguistics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the words morphology in linguistics.
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1. Age-graded Variation in Japanese Visual Language : The different morphology of adults’ and children’s manga
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärandeAbstract : Previous studies have shown that not only is there something called visual language through which we understand graphical expressions, but also that each culture has its own visual language. Furthermore, there are variances within these visual languages, denoted by genre, which can be interpreted to be dialects. READ MORE
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2. 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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3. Conditional Constructions in Damascus Arabic : Form and meaning
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : This paper treats the relationship between form and meaning in conditional constructions in Damascus Arabic (DA). More specifically, it treats two, main formal categories of DA conditional constructions: the conditional marker and the verb morphology and, further, how these are related to various degrees of conditional hypotheticality. READ MORE
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4. Arising plurals in Swedish: A study of Swedish s-plurals
University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This thesis is a study of Swedish speakers’ use of s-plurals in the formation of both indefinite and definite plurals. The topic is investigated using a quantitive method in the form of an online questionnaire. READ MORE
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5. 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 språkvetenskapAbstract : 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