Search for dissertations about: "Finnish"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 166 swedish dissertations containing the word Finnish.

  2. 1. Language contact and structural change : An Old Finnish case study

    Author : Merlijn De Smit; Erling Wande; Kaisa Häkkinen; Raimo Anttila; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finnish; historical linguistics; language contact; Whitehead; Finnish language; Finska språket;

    Abstract : The object of this study is to shed new light on both the influence exerted on Finnish by the Swedish language, and on the mechanisms by which language contact in structural domains takes place. It is argued that syntactic borrowing should be regarded as a subtype of reanalysis and extension rather than as an independent mechanism. READ MORE

  4. 2. Ingrian Finnish : dialect preservation and change

    Author : Manja Irmeli Lehto; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Språk; Österjöfinska; Dialektologi; Finska; Finno-Ugric languages; Finsk-ugriska språk;

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  5. 3. “Speak your own language” : On tensions regarding Finnish in Sweden

    Author : Lasse Vuorsola; Jarmo Lainio; Päivi Juvonen; Sari Pietikäinen; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; applied linguistics; language policy; linguistic landscape; spatial orientation; dialectal change; minority language; shortened infinitives in Finnish; orientations to language policy; finska; Finnish;

    Abstract : In this compilation dissertation I examine social tensions that relate to the Sweden Finnish minority and the Finnish language in Sweden. The dissertation is based on critical applied linguistics and I employ various related theoretical notions in the included articles. READ MORE

  6. 4. Deictic Demonstratives in Japanese, Finnish and Swedish : First and Third Language Perspectives

    Author : Mitsuyo Kuwano Lidén; Gunilla Lindberg-Wada; Päivi Juvonen; Peter af Trampe; Keiko Yoshioka; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Japanese; Finnish; Swedish; spatial-deictically used demonstratives; interlanguage; third-language learning; Japanology; japanologi;

    Abstract : The goal of this thesis is twofold. Firstly, it investigates the actual, native use of spatial-deictic demonstratives in Japanese, Finnish and Swedish. READ MORE

  7. 5. Mastering the question : the acquisition of interrogative clauses by Finnish-speaking children

    Author : Raija Kangassalo; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finnish; child language development; acquisition; interrogative clause; wh-questions; yes no- questions; disjunctive questions; wh-question word; interrogative particle; discourse function;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to chart the development of interrogative syntax among Finnish-speaking children between the ages of 1 to 4 years living in Sweden. The material consists of language samples taken from eleven Sweden-Finnish children with Finnish as their first language. READ MORE