Essays about: "typological approach"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 10 essays containing the words typological approach.

  1. 1. Standard Arabic and Scottish Gaelic: Shared typological features

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Barbara Bakker; [2023-08-16]
    Keywords : Standard Arabic; Scottish Gaelic; Semitic; Celtic; substrate hypothesis; contact theory; structural similarity; typological feature; typological universals;

    Abstract : Although Celtic languages and Semitic languages belong to separate language families, they share numerous typological similarities that are common to Semitic languages but not shared by Standard Indo-European languages. The occurrence and the reasons for these similarities have been the focus of a whole research field, concerned with linguistic, historical, and anthropological hypotheses about possible reasons for said similarities, as well as with linguistic analyses and comparisons of specific Celtic and Semitic languages, such as Hebrew, Welsh and Breton. READ MORE

  3. 2. Rethinking Public Squares: Athens, Berlin, Copenhagen

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

    Author : Eleni Tamiolaki; [2023]
    Keywords : public; public space; public squares; urban space; urban squares; Athens; Berlin; Copenhagen; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : Since ancient times, public squares have played a significant role in the social and political life of towns and cities. They were designed as open spaces for public use, allowing people to meet, communicate, and demonstrate, and as centers for commercial and civic culture that reflected historical transformations. READ MORE

  4. 3. Verb-framed and satellite-framed patterns in Brazilian and European Portuguese

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Manú Castro Nilsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Portuguese; Motion events; Framing typology; Pleonasm;

    Abstract : The goal of this work is to contribute to the understanding of the framing typological domain of motion events in Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) through corpus analysis of intransitive pleonastic double Path constructions, which are constructions that express ‘the same’ trajectory in both the verb and its satellite. Data has been retrieved from the ptTenTen11 corpus. READ MORE

  5. 4. Scope effects on linearization in polysynthetic languages

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Lukas Häusler; [2019]
    Keywords : Syntax; Generative; Polysynthetic; Linearization; Scope; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : 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

  6. 5. Semantic frame based automatic extraction of typological information from descriptive grammars

    University essay from Högskolan i Skövde/Institutionen för informationsteknologi

    Author : Irfan Aslam; [2019]
    Keywords : Automatic Information Extraction; Spoken Languages; Typological Linguistic Information; Logistic Regression; Classification;

    Abstract : This thesis project addresses the machine learning (ML) modelling aspects of the problem of automatically extracting typological linguistic information of natural languages spoken in South Asia from annotated descriptive grammars. Without getting stuck into the theory and methods of Natural Language Processing (NLP), the focus has been to develop and test a machine learning (ML) model dedicated to the information extraction part. READ MORE