This research investigates object-sharing in Serial Verb Constructions in Kusaal, a Gur language spoken in Ghana. In an attempt to investigate whether the object in object sharing SVCs in the said language can be said to be symmetrically shared as in the case of Dagaare, (Hiraiwa and Bodomo 2008), it is observed that the object in object sharing SVCs interacts with Predicate Cleft Constructions in ...

I de siste femti årene har engelsk befestet sin stilling som globalt språk og rådende lingua franca i store deler av verden. Samtidig har engelsk påvirkning på norsk språk og kultur vært svært stor. Nordmenn møter i dag engelsk språk og kultur på nesten alle områder av hverdagslivet og i samfunnet. Mange vil hevde at dette utgjør en trussel mot norsk språk. Formålet med denne avhandlingen er å bidra ...

This thesis is a case study of Optimality Theory (OT) analysis in English second language (hereafter, ESL) coda acquisition. OT can contribute to account for conflicts of constraint rankings in areas of interlanguage development. In this case study of ESL Vietnamese, OT is applied into the previous studies on coda production to account for rates of production types, asymmetry between onset and coda ...

I denne masteroppgaven har jeg undersøkt muntlig og skriftlig palatalitet hos 29 ungdommer i Vest-Lofoten. Jeg har derfor brukt en kombinasjon av metoder for å samle både muntlige og skriftlige data. Lofotmålet har tradisjonelt palatalitet, og det ene hovedfokuset har vært å undersøke variasjonsmønstrene for variablene /n/, /l/, /d/ og /t/ i talemålet. Her har jeg brukt en muntlig elisiteringsoppgave ...

Languages spoken in the Kalahari Basin Area abound with phonetic complexity, particularly with regard to clicks and stops. In these languages, the root-initial onset position is the only position within a root that allows clicks and most egressive obstruents to occur. Some clicks and obstruents are produced phonetically as sequences of release bursts, such as a coronal stop followed by a dorsal ...

The phonological process of flapping in Norwegian is the process in which an underlying voiced alveolar stop /d/ in a function word surfaces as the voiced postalveolar tap /ɾ/. The majority of the data used for this paper is from Urban Eastern Norwegian (UEN), which is a group of dialects from the south-eastern region of Norway, although similar processes and forms of flapping occur in a wide variety ...

Tutkielmani tavoitteena on deskriptio kainun eli kveenin kielen predikoivista funktioista. Työ on tapaustutkimus: kuvaus perustuu toistaiseksi ainoaan laajaan kainun kielellä kirjoitettuun teokseen, porsankilaisen Alf Nilsen-Børsskogin vuonna 2004 ilmestyneeseen romaaniin Kuosuvaaran takana. Osoitan tutkimuksessa, että kainun kielen predikoivat funktiot eli predikatiivi ja predikatiiviadverbiaalit ...

Language attitudes among Spanish speakers in the Canary Islands vary. We can understand the position of the spanish vary of the Canary Islands through parameters such as gender, social class and age. These factors influence the way in which ‘the speaker’ may perceive or interpret the canarian vary. As with other Spanish speaking countries such as America there are many similarities. Although, ...

The Russian language is famous for having verbal Aspects, as Comrie puts it, “different ways of viewing the internal temporal constituency of a situation” (1976: 3). Traditionally, Russian verbs are considered to occur in pairs of Perfective and Imperfective verbs. Apart from the pairs, for many verbs there are other related verbs (Aktionsarten). These verbs are mostly derived from Imperfectives by ...

The aim of this thesis is to explore the phonological opacity of the retroflex suffixation in Beijing Dialect. The retroflex suffixation contains a series of phonetic variables in the main syllable and a phonological opacity. With respect to the former analysis of a phonological approach, there arises variable issues in divergence, including the underlying form of the retroflex suffix, the underlying ...