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  1. 1. Genus im Wandel : Studien zu Genus und Animatizität anhand von Personenbezeichnungen im heutigen Deutsch mit Kontrastierungen zum Schwedischen

    Författare :Bettina Jobin; Gunnar Magnusson; Hans-Olav Enger; Damaris Nübling; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agreement; animacy; contrastive linguistics; corpus linguistics; derivation; German; Swedish; grammatical gender; grammaticalization; inflectional morphology; language change; non-personal-agents; person reference; pronoun; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Germanic languages; German;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates, theoretically and empirically, the role of animacy in the development of gender systems. The theoretical background is a grammaticalisation approach to language change. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Argument Differentiation. Soft constraints and data-driven models

    Författare :Lilja Øvrelid; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; syntactic arguments; parsing; lexical acquisition; animacy; Scandinavian syntax; soft constraints; data-driven models; machine learning;

    Sammanfattning : The ability to distinguish between different types of arguments is central to syntactic analysis, whether studied from a theoretical or computational point of view. This thesis investigates the influence and interaction of linguistic properties of syntactic arguments in argument differentiation. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A corpus-based contrastive study of the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish

    Författare :Anna-Lena Fredriksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; passive construction; active; middle; intransitive; contrastive study; cross-linguistic study; corpus-based; parallel corpus; translation; Swedish; English; network; transitivity; animacy; agent; patient; fiction; non-fiction; theme-rheme;

    Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish. It is a bi-directional study that uses empirical fiction and non-fiction material in the form of original texts and their translations from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. LÄS MER

  5. 4. The Ndengeleko Language of Tanzania

    Författare :Eva-Marie Ström; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ndengeleko; Bantu; Tanzania; Rufiji; phonology; morphology; morpho-phonology; endangered languages; grammar; linguistic description; spirantisation; animacy; conjoint; disjoint;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation describes the Ndengeleko language of Tanzania, in particular the phonology and morphology in the noun and verb phrase. This Bantu language, spoken by approximately 72,000 people, has not been the subject of any previous linguistic study. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Social causality in motion : Visual bias and categorization of social interactions during the observation of chasing in infancy

    Författare :Martyna A. Galazka; Pär Nyström; Gustaf Gredebäck; Moritz Daum; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; social causality; motion; animacy perception; chasing goal-directed motion; heat-seeking; EEG; P400; Nc; spatial proximity; non-contact causality; functional specialization; specialized perception; evolution; Psychology; Psykologi;

    Sammanfattning : Since the seminal work of Fritz Heider and Marienne Simmel (1944) the study of animacy perception, or the perception and attribution of life from the motion of simple geometrical shapes has intrigued researchers. The intrigue for psychologists and vision scientists then and today centered on the stark disconnect between the simplicity of the visual input and the universal richness of the resulting percept. LÄS MER