Search for dissertations about: "endangered languages"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 10 swedish dissertations containing the words endangered languages.

  2. 6. A grammar of Jahai

    Author : Niclas Burenhult; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Kinesiska och språk och litteratur från Syd- och Sydostasien; Chinese; Languages and literatures of South and South-East Asia; expressives; argument; agreement; syntax; modality; Aktionsart; aspect; nominalisation; unitisation; reduplication; cliticisation; affixation; derivational morphology; prestopped nasals; phonology; vowel nasality; Malaysia; endangered languages; Austroasiatic; Mon-Khmer; Jahai; Aslian; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik; Phonetics; Fonetik; fonologi;

    Abstract : Jahai, a language belonging to the Aslian branch of the Mon-Khmer language family, is spoken by a group of about 1,000 hunter-gatherers in the montane rainforests of northern Peninsular Malaysia. Drawing on linguistic data collected in the field, the present dissertation is a study of the grammar of Jahai. READ MORE

  4. 7. A comparative study of Yucatec Maya Sign Languages

    Author : Josefina Safar; Johanna Mesch; Olivier Le Guen; Victoria Nyst; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Yucatec Maya Sign Language; Yucatec Maya; Mexico; Mesoamerica; shared sign language; village sign language; language emergence; language evolution; sociolinguistic variation; gesture-sign interface; grammaticalisation; lexicalisation; cardinal numbers; size-and-shape specifiers; translanguaging; noun-verb distinction; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Abstract : In my dissertation, I focus on the documentation and comparison of indigenous sign languages in Yucatán, Mexico. I conducted fieldwork in four Yucatec Maya communities with a high incidence of deafness. READ MORE

  5. 8. Discourse enclitics in Tena Kichwa : a corpus-based account of information structure and epistemic meaning

    Author : Karolina Zofia Grzech; Irina Nikolaeva; UK University of London Department of Linguistics School of Oriental and African Studies; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Quechua; Kichwa; Evidentiality; Discourse Markers; Information Structure; Linguistics; lingvistik;

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  6. 9. A Linguistic Description of Mbugwe with Focus on Tone and Verbal Morphology

    Author : Vera Wilhelmsen; Anju Saxena; Maarten Mous; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bantu; grammar; fieldwork; Tanzania; tone; TAM; morphology; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : Mbugwe is an endangered Bantu language spoken in north central Tanzania. This PhD dissertation is a description of the Mbugwe language with a focus on tone and verbal morphology, based on the author’s fieldwork. This is the first detailed description of the language. Thus far, only a short grammatical sketch of Mbugwe has been available. READ MORE

  7. 10. Frame of reference in Iwaidja : Towards a culturally responsive early years mathematics program

    Author : Cris Edmonds-Wathen; Dianne Siemon; Australia RMIT University; []
    Keywords : mathematics education; Indigenous education – primary; language and mathematics; spatial cognition; didactics of mathematics; matematikdidaktik;

    Abstract : Most Indigenous Australian language speaking students in remote Northern Territory locations are taught in English by non-Indigenous teachers. Their first languages are inadequately accounted for in mathematics curricula and assessments. READ MORE