Search for dissertations about: "Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm.

  2. 1. A typology of action nominal constructions

    Author : Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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  4. 2. Aspects of the Grammar and Lexicon of Sεlεε

    Author : Yvonne Agbetsoamedo; Östen Dahl; Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm; Felix Ameka; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sεlεε; Santrokofi; GTM; grammatical description; noun class; negation; tense; aspect; diminutive; temperature evaluations; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Abstract : This thesis is a description of some aspects of the grammar of Sɛlɛɛ, a Ghana-Togo-Mountain (GTM) language, based on my own fieldwork. The thesis consists of an introduction and five papers.Paper (I), Noun classes in Sεlεε, describes the noun class system of Sɛlɛɛ. READ MORE

  5. 3. Object marking in the signed modality : Verbal and nominal strategies in Swedish Sign Language and other sign languages

    Author : Carl Börstell; Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm; Irit Meir; Roland Pfau; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sign language; object marking; differential object marking; argument structure; transitivity; valency; directionality; handshape; pronoun; perspective; Swedish Sign Language; Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language; Israeli Sign Language; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Abstract : In this dissertation, I investigate various aspects of object marking and how these manifest themselves in the signed modality. The main focus is on Swedish Sign Language (SSL), the national sign language of Sweden, which is the topic of investigation in all five studies. READ MORE

  6. 4. Gender and its interaction with number and evaluative morphology : An intra- and intergenealogical typological survey of Africa

    Author : Francesca Di Garbo; Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm; Ljuba Veselinova; Vladimir Plungian; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Gender; number; evaluative morphology; interaction; grammatical complexity; Africa; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates interactions between gender and number and gender and evaluative morphology in a sample of 100 African languages, and provides a method for assessing the role that these interactions play in the grammatical complexity of gender systems. The dissertation is organised around three research foci. READ MORE

  7. 5. Probabilistic and Prominence-driven Incremental Argument Interpretation in Swedish

    Author : Thomas Hörberg; Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm; T. Florian Jaeger; Petra Hendriks; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammatical functions; Swedish; grammatical function assignment; grammatical function reanalysis; argument prominence; discourse prominence; information structure; event-related brain potentials; self-paced reading; corpus-based modeling; Bayesian surprise; surprisal; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates how grammatical functions in transitive sentences (i.e., `subject' and `direct object') are distributed in written Swedish discourse with respect to morphosyntactic as well as semantic and referential (i.e. READ MORE