Search for dissertations about: "word-formation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the word word-formation.

2. 1. Word formation in BSL

   Author : Mary Brennan; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : Sign Language; teckenspråk;

   Abstract : This study explores the interlocking strands of productive morphology in British Sign Language (BSL), the language used by the Deaf Community in Britain. It examines how users of the language, 'signers', are able to create 'new* lexical items on a regular everyday basis. READ MORE

4. 2. Modern Icelandic Word Formation

   Author : Yair Sapir; Henrik Williams; Raimo Raag; Veturliði Óskarsson; Gunlög Josefsson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Icelandic language; Icelandic; Scandinavian; word formation; morphology; neologisms; calque; language planning; language contact; linguistic purism; Isländska; Scandinavian languages; Nordiska språk;

   Abstract : Icelandic is known for its conservative word formation, largely involving native sources. The main focus of the present research is to describe which mechanisms are used in forming words in Modern Icelandic. Furthermore, a postulated additional category within Icelandic complexes, introduced here under the label compilations, is examined. READ MORE

5. 3. On the principles of word formation in Swedish

   Author : Gunlög Josefsson; Svenska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Originator; Force; Telicity; Event measurer; LF-lexicon; PF-lexicon; List of Morphemes; Property; Thing; Event; prefix; major ontological categories; suffix; compound; derivation; linking element; asymmetry; Move; Merge; Generalized Transformations; word class; inflection;

   Abstract : My thesis is an attempt to give a minimalist account of word formation in Swedish. (See Chomsky (1993) and (1994).) In the main part of my thesis I demonstrate how the proposed system accounts for the central aspects of Swedish word formation. READ MORE

6. 4. The acquisition of nominal compounding in Swedish

   Author : Ingmarie Mellenius; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; nominal compounds; modifier; head; liaison form; language acquisition; conceptual combination; compounding; word formation; Swedish; child language; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Abstract : In Swedish, as in other North Germanic languages, compounds are very common and a majority of the novel words in Swedish are compounds. This thesis aims at a presentation of compounding in Swedish and the problems involved in describing compounding, but mainly at an empirically founded description of children's creation and use of novel compounds and developing comprehension of compounds, especially nominal compounds. READ MORE

7. 5. A bridge of words : A term list based on the study and classification of compounding operations in Avot Yeshurun's later poetry (1974-1992) concerning the notion of bayit (home/house)

   Author : Gidon Avraham; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; victim diaspora; correspondence between literary motif and language operation; Språkvetenskap; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Semitic Languages; Semitiska språk;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to establish, describe and present a term list; based upon word level operations of Avot Yeshurun, as used within the framework of a given literary context (metonymy) and adapted by the poet to a given language environment (poems in New Hebrew).Aided by terminological methods of description, a classification of the poet's working terminology is conducted, based upon linguistic and, thematic categories, composed in the light of concept-oriented literary criticism in Israel, the issue of transnationality and the meta-time approach typical of holocaust literature. READ MORE