Sökning: "meaning extensions"

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  1. 1. Technology, Language and Thought : Extensions of Meaning in the English Lexicon

    Författare :Marlene Johansson Falck; Ulf Magnusson; Dirk Geeraerts; Luleå tekniska universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; cognitive linguistics; cognitive tools; language; English; sense development; meaning extension; thought; metaphors; metonymies; scaffoldings; entrenchment; technology; electricity; steam engines; motor vehicles; roads; ways; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; English; engelska; Engelska med didaktiskt inriktning;

    Sammanfattning : In this thesis, the relationship between technological innovation and the development of language and thought is analysed. For this purpose, three different fields of technology are investigated: 1) the steam engine, 2) electricity, and 3) motor vehicles, roads and ways. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Equivalence et saillance dans l'expression de la localisation frontale dynamique en suédois et en français : Etude comparative et contrastive de fram et de (s’)avancer/en avant

    Författare :Carina Andersson; Kerstin Jonasson; Walter de Mulder; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Romance languages - general; parallel corpora; cognitive semantics; contrastive analysis; embodiement; sailence; frontal orientation; Swedish; French; meaning extensions; Romanska språk - allmänt; Romance languages; Romanska språk; romanska språk; Romance Languages;

    Sammanfattning : The present study deals with the expression of frontal orientation in dynamic contexts as lexicalised in the Swedish particle fram and its French equivalents (s')avancer/en avant. The study is based on a parallel corpus containing approximately one millon words of Swedish and one million words of French fiction and it consists of a comparison made on the basis of monolingual and crosslinguistic data. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Best Trees Extraction and Contextual Grammars for Language Processing

    Författare :Anna Jonsson; Johanna Björklund; Frank Drewes; Hendrik Jan Hoogeboom; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Weighted tree automata; the N-best problem; efficient algorithms; semantic graph; abstract meaning representation; contextual graph grammars; hyperedge replacement; graph extensions;

    Sammanfattning : In natural language processing, the syntax of a sentence refers to the words used in the sentence, their grammatical role, and their order. Semantics concerns the concepts represented by the words in the sentence and their relations, i.e., the meaning of the sentence. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Extensions and Applications of Fast-Lipschitz Optimization

    Författare :Martin Jakobsson; Carlo Fischione; Michael Rabbat; KTH; []
    Nyckelord :TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY;

    Sammanfattning : Fast-Lipschitz optimization is a framework for optimization problems having a special structure in which the optimal solution is given by a set of equations, easily solvable through fixed point iterations. This solution method is simple to implement and particularly well suited for distributed optimization applications, such as those arising in wireless sensor networks. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Nederländskans komen och svenskans komma : En kontrastiv undersökning

    Författare :Annika Johansson; Ingrid Wikén Bonde; Tomas Riad; Harry Perridon; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; contrastivity; Dutch verb komen; Swedish verb komma; corpus-based; networkmodel; prototype theory; grammaticalization; Dutch language; Nederländska;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this dissertation is to give a detailed analysis of the Dutch verb komen ‘come’ and the Swedish verb komma ‘come’ based on a systematic comparison. Focus has been placed on grammatical polysemy and the study is written within the framework of cognitive linguistics. LÄS MER