Sökning: "Referring expressions"
Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 14 avhandlingar innehållade orden Referring expressions.
1. One of a kind. The processing of indefinite one-anaphora in spoken Danish
Sammanfattning : It is a hallmark of natural language use that the way we talk about something reflects how it is represented in the mind of our conversation partner. This thesis studies the use and cognitive processing of referring expressions like one in comparison with other expression types in spoken Danish. LÄS MER
2. 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
3. Expresiones de movimiento en español como segunda lengua y como lengua heredada : Conceptualización y entrega del Camino, la Manera y la Base
Sammanfattning : The current thesis is based on four individual studies which aim to account for the expression of motion events (ME) in Spanish and Swedish as first languages (L1), in Swedish as a second language (L2), and in Spanish as a heritage language (SHL). The data, resulting from audio-recordings of different sorts of stimuli, have been analyzed with special focus on (1) the most common structures used for referring to various types of ME, (2) the types and amount of information provided by the participants, in particular as regards the semantic components Path, Manner and Ground, and (3) grammatical aspect and types of syntactic structures resorted to, including the correlation between the two latter factors and speakers’ discursive preferences. LÄS MER
4. Processing noun phrases in natural discourse
Sammanfattning : This thesis is about the use and interpretation of referential expressions in discourse. Referential expressions are, simply put, those words and phrases in language that can be used for referring to persons, objects, phenomena, times, places and other 'things'. LÄS MER
5. Representations of discourse : cognitive and computational aspects
Sammanfattning : This work is concerned with empirical studies of cognitive and computational aspects of discourse representations. A more specific aim is to contribute to the development of natural language interfaces for interaction with computers, especially the development of representations making possible a continuous interactive dialogue between user and system. LÄS MER