Sökning: "British English"

Visar resultat 11 - 15 av 56 avhandlingar innehållade orden British English.

  1. 11. A late Middle English version of the gospel of Nicodemus : edited from British Museum MS Harley 149

    Författare :Bengt Lindström; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  2. 12. Temporal Subordinators and Clauses in Early Modern English : Stability and Change

    Författare :Göran Rönnerdal; Merja Kytö; Christer Geisler; Raymond Hickey; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :anteriority; aspect; complex subordinator; correlative subordinator; ellipsis; grammaticalization; modality; mood; negated subordinator; posteriority; primary meaning; repeated subordinator; replaced subordinator; secondary meaning; simple subordinator; simultaneity; temporal subordinator; tense; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : My work is a corpus-based investigation of the use and development of temporal subordinators and clauses in Early Modern British English (EModE).  The focus of the project is on the forms, structure, meanings, and history of these subordinators and clauses. LÄS MER

  3. 13. The impact of macro socioeconomic trends on the future of the English language

    Författare :David Graddol; Philip Shaw; Kingsley Bolton; Alan Davies; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; World Englishes; ELT; English as a lingua franca; language policy; language and economy; language demographics; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis by compilation consists of four books and articles published between 1997 and 2006, each dealing with issues related to the increasing use of English as a global language, together with an introductory chapter which reviews the literature relating to world Englishes and the Sociology of Language, and discusses the methodology employed in the research. The publications included are: (i) Graddol, D. LÄS MER

  4. 14. Idioms Unlimited. A study of non-canonical forms of English verbal idioms in the British National Corpus

    Författare :Elisabeth Gustawsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; idiom; corpus; transparency; isomorphicity; modification; derivation; permutation; non-canonical; figurative;

    Sammanfattning : The study is a corpus-based investigation of the semantic, lexical, and grammatical flexibility of English verbal idioms, focusing on qualitative analyses of examples of current British English usage. 300 verbal idioms - i.e. idioms that consist of a verb and a complement, e. LÄS MER

  5. 15. A late Middle English treatise on horses : ed. from British Library ms. Sloane 2584 ff. 102-117b

    Författare :Anne Charlotte Svinhufvud; Stockholms universitet; []
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