In this thesis, I will account for coda lenition processes in Danish using local conjunction within optimality theory. These processes include deaspiration, stops becoming approximant and vocalization in syllable-final position. No such process occurs syllable-initially or intervocalically, nor does the following onset have any effect. I will show that these coda conditions, as well as lenition-caused ...

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 ...

Children tend to omit functional categories in early language. The present thesis considers the production of such function words as articles and monosyllabic prepositions in child English. The analysis is conducted within a framework of the prosodic account. The development of early articles has received a lot of attention in the literature, while monosyllabic prepositions have not been discussed ...

The present work investigates the semantics of the Russian prefix вы- in so-called natural perfective verbs. Traditionally it is considered that prefixes of natural perfective verbs do not change the meaning of the base verb and thus do not have lexical meaning, i.e. they are “empty”. The only meaning they are supposed to have is the meaning “to bring an action to the end”, which is claimed to be a ...

This thesis is concerned with the interaction of two phenomena: vowel epenthesis and stress assignment. Vowels are potential targets for stress, and they count for determining the stress window in systems where stress is grammaticaly predictable. Epenthetic vowels, however, are often exceptional in this respect. There is an array of languages where epenthetic vowels shun stress, or in some other way ...

The most controversial and divisive political issue in Britain in the last decade was the decision to go to war in Iraq. The legitimisation and justification for making this decision was argued through a carefully considered discourse constructed by Prime Minister Tony Blair and his associates. A key role in mediating and manifesting the discourse of Blair was played out by the media. If Blair was ...

Det norske språket kjennetegnes av stor variasjonen i plassering av trykk på ordnivå, noe som kan tilskrives den høye frekvensen av lånord, hovedsaklig fra engelsk, tysk, gresk, latin og fransk. Siden lånordene oftest er trykklagt i samsvar med trykkreglene i långiverspråket, er det vanskelig å favne hele det norske vokabularet i en uniform synkron beskrivelse. I nyere analyser benyttes gjerne ...

Genitiv 2 er maskuliner av første deklinasjon entall som tar u-endelse i genitiv. Det er langt fra alle ord som kan ta genitiv 2 og en kan forstå det som et unntak fra regelen om a-endelse i genitiv. Allikevel kan en ofte møte genitiv 2 i russisk. Mastergradsoppgaven er en empirisk undersøkelse som tar utgangspunkt i det ulike grammatikker hevder. Undersøkelse av faktisk bruk er gjort i internettkorpuset ...

Lyngen kommune i Nord - Troms er interessant i et etnisk perspektiv i.o.m møtet mellom kvener, samer og nordmenn. Språkvitenskapen har påvist at møtet mellom folkegruppene har satt spor i talemålet i området. Jeg ønsket å undersøke om dette flerkulturelle møtet har vært av betydning også i forhold til navngiving. Undersøkelsen min har karakter av en komparativ analyse av navngivingspraksisen mellom ...