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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Linguistic Typology"”.
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A Codicological and Linguistic Typology of Common Torah Codices from the Cairo Genizah
This PhD thesis develops a typology of common Torah codices from the Cairo Genizah. As many of these codices have a non-standard form of Tiberian vocalisation (NST) the thesis also develops a typology of this vocalisation present in the corpus. These codices lack the full features associated with …
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K posesivitě v českém znakovém jazyce
… formulating the first findings concerning the typology of sign languages. The first parts of the paper pay attention to the theoretical context - the category of possessiveness and the definition of some basic terms, the theory of universals, linguistic typology in general and the typology of …
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Non-finite Complementation: A case study of Bùlì
… the dissertation is Universal Grammar (UG) and linguistic typology, I have, in the discussions, provided a substantial amount of descriptive as well as analytical material concerning these aspects of the grammar of Bùlì. The main claim of the dissertation is that Bùlì possesses two kinds of …
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Form and function of expressive morphology: a case study of Russian
… in Russian can be extended to set up a cross-linguistic typology of expressives.
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Linguistic Diversity On Africa: Clustering Methods Application On Language Typology Data
… research is to understand the distribution of linguistic diversity and its underlying principles. Linguistic typology allows us to characterize diverse languages in terms of their linguistic features, which can be used to create a relatively comprehensive description of any language. An …
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Sign language varieties of Indonesia: A linguistic and sociolinguistic investigation.
Until now there has been no robust (socio)linguistic documentation of urban sign language varieties in Indonesia, and given the size of the Indonesian archipelago, it might be expected that these varieties are very different from each other. In this kind of situation, sign linguists have often …
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Locality in A-movement
… dissertation. This chapter also lays out a cross-linguistic typology of possibilities for A-movement to the subject position. Chapter 2 concerns cases of advancing,where the argument generated highest is attracted by the feature (EPP) driving movement to the subject position. Here locality …
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Composing questions
… to account for our understanding of the cross-linguistic typology of multiple questions.
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The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Dohok: A Comparative Grammar
This thesis provides a linguistic analysis of key issues in the Neo-Aramaic dialect that was historically spoken by the Jewish community in Dohok, north-western Iraq. This linguistic variety belongs to the North-Eastern sub-branch of Neo-Aramaic – a group of dialects and languages used by Jews and …
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From the Unexpected to the Unbelievable: Thetics, Miratives and Exclamatives in Conceptual Space
… investigates the relationship between three linguistic functions: thetics, miratives and exclamatives. Thetics are an information structure configuration that conveys that the information is new to the addressee. The thetic subtypes selected for this study are the following: existentials …
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L2 Effect on Bilingual Spanish/English Encoding of Motion Events: Does Manner Salience Transfer?
… expansion of Talmy’s (1985, 1991, 2000) binary typology and observes that the degree of <em>manner salience</em>varies cross-linguistically. The two languages investigated in this study, Spanish and English, are at divergent points along the cline of manner salience. In addition, Slobin (1996b) …
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Inductive Bias and Modular Design for Sample-Efficient Neural Language Learning
Most of the world's languages suffer from the paucity of annotated data. This curbs the effectiveness of supervised learning, the most widespread approach to modelling language. Instead, an alternative paradigm could take inspiration from the propensity of children to acquire language from limited …