Sökning: "historical corpus linguistics"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 17 avhandlingar innehållade orden historical corpus linguistics.

  1. 1. Le récit conversationnel en situation exolingue de français : Formes, types et fonctions

    Författare :Eva Westin; Franska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; back-channel signals; Corpus Westin; French language; reportability; anecdotal ; narrator – narratee; Conversational narrative; exolingual – endolingual; forms of conversational narrative auto-introduction; Franska språket; hetero-introduction; co-narration; continuity – discontinuity; echoic narration; types of conversational narrative private; retold story ; Linguistics; Lingvistik; cultural; historical; functions of conversational narrative argumentative; explicative; fictive ;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to examine, through a mainly qualitative description, the narrative in exolingual conversations in French between non-native speakers (NNS) (Swedish students) and native speakers (NS). The theoretical frame ranges from text linguistics (Revaz, Adam, Bronckart etc. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Second Person Singular Pronouns in Early Modern English Dialogues 1560-1760

    Författare :Terry Walker; Merja Kytö; Ulrich Busse; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; thou; you; variation; Early Modern English; speech-related genres; extra-linguistic factors; linguistic factors; macro-analysis; micro-analysis; corpus linguistics; historical pragmatics; historical sociolinguistics; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is a corpus-based investigation examining thou and you from 1560 to 1760 in three speech-related genres: Trials, Depositions, and Drama Comedy. Previous research has focused on Drama Comedy; especially little attention has been paid to Depositions. LÄS MER

  4. 3. The Integration of MILLION into the English System of Number Words : A Diachronic Study

    Författare :Donald MacQueen; Merja Kytö; Raymond Hickey; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; number-word universals; historical corpus linguistics; variationist study; American vs British English; newspapers; grammaticalization; iconicity; gradience; English language; Engelska språket; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This corpus-based variationist study traces the history of the English number word MILLION from its first attested use in the 14th century, focusing on the diachronic shift in function from one of heading its noun phrase (NP), as in the obsolescent (Obs) construction three millions of citizens, to one of a post-determiner of its NP head, as in Present-day English (PdE) three million citizens. The authentic historical materials used include both numerous electronic linguistic corpora and, more innovatively, very-large-scale general collections available online, especially historical newspaper collections from the US and UK comprising tens of billions of words. LÄS MER

  5. 4. 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

  7. 5. Gender-Related Terms in English Depositions, Examinations and Journals, 1670–1720

    Författare :Sara Lilja; Merja Kytö; Pia Norell; Thomas Kohnen; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :English language; adjectives; corpus linguistics; A Corpus of English Dialogues 1560–1760; demonstratives; depositions; Early Modern English; examinations; female; gender; gender-related terms; historical sociolinguistics; journals; male; Salem Witchcraft Papers; Engelska; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation focuses on gender-related terms as well as adjectives and demonstratives in connection with these terms used in texts from the period 1670–1720. The material in the study has been drawn from both English and American sources and comes from three text categories: depositions, examinations and journals. LÄS MER