Browsing Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aestetic Studies by Subject "Iconicity"
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Iconicity in Verb Serialisation. Re-analyzing Akan SVCs
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)The extant works on serial verb constructions (SVCs) in the Akan language categorize verb serialization into clause chaining (CC) and integrated serial verb (ISV) constructions based on the notion of the degree of semantic ... -
Pseudopartitives in Norwegian
(Doctoral thesis, 2001-12-14)The dissertation investigates Norwegian pseudopartitive constructions like 'a cup of tea', 'three kilometres of road', and 'thousands of students'. A quantifying noun or denominal quantifier in -vis denotes a quantity, and ...