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Scandinavian accent typology
Most of the Scandinavian languages and dialects exhibit a tonal accent distinction. Invariably the lexical tone is associated to the primary stressed syllable...
Keywords: Scandinavian, tone accent, accent 2, typology, alignment
01/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagThe phonetic profile of Swedish
This chapter is “typological” in two senses: Whereas the first section considers some of the sounds and sound patterns of Swedish from a universal-typological point of view, the second section discusses the considerable phonetic variability observed across the various dialects of the language...
Keywords: Swedish, typology, phonetic, dialect, prosody
01/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagThe emergence of systems of lexical and grammatical tone and stress in Caribbean and West African Creoles
The complex contact situation that developed among speakers of Niger-Congo and Indo-European languages in the Caribbean during the era of colonial plantation slav-ery gave rise to creoles with similarly complex pitch-related suprasegmental systems...
Keywords: tone, stress, typology, substrate influence, complexity
02/2006 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagParts-of-speech systems and dependent clauses: A typological study
This paper investigates the degree of parallelism between the distribution of parts-of-speech classes in a language, and the distribution of dependent clause types in that language...
Keywords: Lexicon, syntax, typology, parts-of-speech systems, dependent clauses, subordination
08/2006 | Folia Linguistica, Walter de GruyterSpace-to-time mappings and temporal concepts
Most research on metaphors that construe time as motion (motion metaphors of time) has focused on the question of whether it is the times or the person experiencing them (ego) that moves...
Keywords: space, time, semantics, frames, polysemy, typology, metaphor, metonymy, deixis, perspective, psychology, Wolof, Japanese
07/2006 | Cognitive Linguistics, Walter de GruyterTypologically motivated over- vs. underspecification of gender in Germanic languages
This paper investigates different means of expressing natural gender in personal terms, namely derivational suffixes, different inflectional classes, and the inflection of pronouns, adjectives, and determiners for grammatical gender in the history of Ger-man, English, and Swedish...
Keywords: Germanic languages, typology, morphosyntax, gender, framing
03/2007 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie VerlagPreface
Aim of this issue is to bring together studies in Greek phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics that share a typological perspective on language description...
Keywords: typology, language description, Comparison, grammar, Modern Greek
01/2008 | STUF – Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Akademie Verlag