Sökning: "Compositionality"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade ordet Compositionality.
1. On Compositionality
Sammanfattning : The goal of inquiry in this essay is to ascertain to what extent the Principle of Compositionality – the thesis that the meaning of a complex expression is determined by the meaning of its parts and its mode of composition – can be justifiably imposed as a constraint on semantic theories, and thereby provide information about what meanings are. Apart from the introduction (Chapter One) and the concluding chapter (Chapter Seven) the thesis is divided into five chapters addressing different questions pertaining to the overarching goal of inquiry. LÄS MER
2. Critères de figement : L’identification des expressions figées en français contemporain
Sammanfattning : Although there are units larger than the word in language, linguists have not been able to agree on a definition of these units. This study examines a variety of notions, relevant in the study of ”fixed” or ”frozen” expressions in contemporary French. LÄS MER
3. Korten på bordet. Innehålls- och uttrycksmässig variation hos svenska idiom
Sammanfattning : The dissertation recounts how thirty-six Swedish idioms consisting of a verb and complement are used in contemporary newspaper material found in the Bank of Swedish Linguistic Reference Databank of Göteborg University. All the expressions occur at least once per million running words in my corpus of almost 33.7 million running words. LÄS MER
4. Att tolka det sammansatta. Befästning och mönster i första- och andraspråkstalares tolkning av sammansättningar
Sammanfattning : This thesis presents a cognitive questionnaire-based study on the interpretation of compounds. The analysis is based on the interpretations from 190 Swedish-speaking students in upper secondary schools. LÄS MER
5. Content and Composition : An essay on tense, content, and semantic value
Sammanfattning : A remarkable thing about natural language is that we can use it to share our beliefs and thoughts about the world with other speakers of our language. In cases of successful communication, beliefs seem to be transferred from speakers to hearers by means of the hearer recovering the contents of the speaker’s utterances. LÄS MER