Sökning: "history of language usage"
Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 13 avhandlingar innehållade orden history of language usage.
6. Ordspråk i bruk : Användning av ordspråk i dramadialog
Sammanfattning : This thesis is a study of proverbs and their use in dialogue. Proverbs have a long history but have not been the subject of much linguistic research in Sweden. The purpose of the study is to examine how proverbs are used, who uses them and to what extent they are used. LÄS MER
7. Basic Tendencies of Adjectival Accentological Development in Contemporary Russian
Sammanfattning : The present doctoral thesis is a study of the problem of "variation" in relation to word-stress in Russian adjectives, in both their short and long forms. The stress variation in adjectival forms is investigated from various viewpoints, the main of which is the revelation of the basic processes of stress reorganisation in these groups of words and the establishment of main tendencies of adjectival stress development in contemporary Russian. LÄS MER
8. The Integration of MILLION into the English System of Number Words : A Diachronic Study
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
9. On the development of the present active participle in Bulgarian
Sammanfattning : The purpose of the study is to chronicle the loss and to a certain extent the restoration of the present active participle in Middle Bulgarian. Also problems concerning the past active participle 1 and the question of the gerund are touched upon. LÄS MER
10. Nominal Morphology in Russian Correspondence 1700-1715 : Part One - Part Two
Sammanfattning : The materials examined here consist of 121 Russian letters dating from 1700-1715. The present study aims to define a stage in linguistic evolution and analyze the morphological heterogeneity in the textual corpus. The letters are divided into three categories: private, semiofficial, and official. LÄS MER
