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1. 16. Engelskan i svensk dagspress

   Författare :Judith-Ann Chrystal; Svenska språknämnden; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; language contact; borrowing; loan words; Swedish; English; English influence; newspapers;

   Sammanfattning : This study is concerned with the extent and nature of English influence on Swedish. The main aim of the study is to investigate how loans are introduced and which factors affect their integration into Swedish. LÄS MER

3. 17. English Colour Terms in Context

   Författare :Anders Steinvall; Gunnar Persson; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; basic colour terms; elaborate colour terms; cognitive linguistics; metonymy; domain; context; markedness; figurative meaning; type modification; classifying function; vantage; reference point; attribute; entrenchment; radial category; corpus; English language; Engelska språket; engelska; English;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis examines usage of English colour terms in context, based on an extensive computerised text corpus, the Bank of English. It describes the ways in which English colour terms may be used to refer to nuances outside their normal area of designation and to attributes outside the colour domain. LÄS MER

4. 18. The Subject of the Verbal Gerund : A Study of Variation in English

   Författare :Susanna Lyne; Merja Kytö; Hilde Hasselgård; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; BNC; British National Corpus; corpus linguistics; genitive; genre; gerund; ing-form; Late Modern English; linguistic variation; multivariate analysis; possessive; prescriptivism; Present-day English; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : This study deals with variation between possessive/genitive and objective/plain forms of the subject of the verbal gerund clause (VGC) in Present-day and Late Modern British English, as in Would you object to my [me] paying her a visit? and Poor timing of spoonfuls can lead to the child’s [the child] feeling frustrated. According to the traditional prescriptivist view, the possessive/genitive form is the preferred variant. LÄS MER

5. 19. Clefts in English and Swedish: A contrastive study of IT-clefts and WH-clefts in original texts and translations

   Författare :Mats Johansson; Engelska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Engelska språk och litteratur ; English language and literature; information structure; ground; focus; discourse topic; topic; theme; discourse; fronting; wh-clefts; it-clefts; pseudo-cleft constructions; cleft constructions; bidirectional translation corpus; translation; corpus linguistics; contrastive linguistics; Swedish; English; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates the use of cleft constructions in English and Swedish on the basis of a bidirectional translation corpus consisting of original English and Swedish texts and their translations into the other language. This design minimizes the problems inherent in corpora of original texts alone, viz. LÄS MER

7. 20. The vowels of Delhi English : Three studies in sociophonetics

   Författare :Raphaël Domange; Peter Sundkvist; Niclas Abrahamsson; Raymond Hickey; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Indian English; phonology; sociophonetics; language variation and change; language contact; world Englishes; English; engelska;

   Sammanfattning : Addressing the dearth of sociolinguistic variation research in the “new” varieties of English (D. Sharma, 2017b), this dissertation consists of a set of three sociophonetic studies on an urban dialect of Indian English. LÄS MER