Sökning: "prepositional phrases"

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  1. 1. Verbs of Motion with Directional Prepositions and Prefixes in Xenophon's Anabasis

    Författare :Sanita Balode; Grekiska (antik och bysantinsk); []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Xenophon; Anabasis; prefixes; prepositional phrases; verbs of motion; surface elements; semantic elements; motion event; moving entity; landmark; source; path; goal; space; direction; trajectory; synonymy;

    Sammanfattning : The thesis compares different prepositions and verbal prefixes denoting direction in Ancient Greek. The corpus covers passages in Xenophon’s Anabasis where such directional elements are used. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Noun Phrases in British Travel Texts : A Corpus-Based Study

    Författare :Tore Nilsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; corpus linguistics; syntactic variation; noun phrase NP ; premodification; postmodification; simple; complex; NP head; NP function; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study is a corpus-based investigation of the structure and variation of noun phrases in three types of British texts on tourism and travel. Based on their publishing formats, the corpus texts are divided into three Text categories: tourist brochures, newspaper feature articles dealing with travel and tourism, and travel guides. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Media Arabic Grammar and Semantics. Clauses and non-core elements : A corpus investigation of print hard news

    Författare :Emil Lundin; Gail Ramsay; Joakim Nivre; Maria Persson; Elie Wardini; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Media Arabic; Modern Standard Arabic; Journalism; print hard news; newspaper; journalese; grammar; syntax; clause linking; Semitic Languages; Semitiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : ”Media Arabic” is taught on universities all over the world and its understanding ranks among the top-reasons for students to pursue Arabic studies. The coursebooks on ”Media Arabic” focus on print hard news and tacitly assume the existence of an Arabic journalese. Previous research on Arabic newspaper language is scarce. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Conversational Writing : A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication

    Författare :Ewa Jonsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; CMC; computer-mediated communication; conversational writing; chat; computer chat; ICQ; IRC; Internet relay chat; multidimensional; Biber’s dimensions; synchronous CMC; supersynchronous CMC; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This study is a linguistic investigation of two genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC), namely two modes of conversational writing: ‘Internet relay chat’ (synchronous CMC) and ‘split-window ICQ chat’ (supersynchronous CMC). The study employs Douglas Biber’s multifeature multidimensional methodology, taking into account the six dimensions of textual variation in English identified in his 1988 book Variation across speech and writing (i. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Multilingual Forest : Investigating High-quality Parallel Corpus Development

    Författare :Yvonne Adesam; Martin Volk; Joakim Nivre; Koenraad de Smedt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; treebank; syntax; alignment; corpus; annotation projection; multilingual; tagging; parsing; datorlingvistik; Computational Linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis explores the development of parallel treebanks, collections of language data consisting of texts and their translations, with syntactic annotation and alignment, linking words, phrases, and sentences to show translation equivalence. We describe the semi-manual annotation of the SMULTRON parallel treebank, consisting of 1,000 sentences in English, German and Swedish. LÄS MER