Sökning: "quantitative linguistics"

Visar resultat 6 - 10 av 56 avhandlingar innehållade orden quantitative linguistics.

  1. 6. Transitivity in discourse : A comparison of Greek, Polish and Swedish

    Författare :Ann Lindvall; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agentivity; affectedness; aspect; boundedness; cognitive semantics; definiteness; discourse semantics; dynamism; functionalism; givenness; Greek; language typology; lexical semantics; modality; Modern Greek; Polish; transitivity; Swedish; translation; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This work assumes that various linguistic forms in different languages are related to common cognitive functions and semantic properties. A cognitive function - presumably universal - is information transmission. LÄS MER

  3. 7. A typology of classifiers and gender : From description to computation

    Författare :Marc Tang; Michael Dunn; Christine Lamarre; Sebastian Fedden; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Classifiers; Gender; Nominal classification; Functions; Random Forests; Phylogeny; Word Embeddings; Neural Networks; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : Categorization is one the most relevant tasks realized by humans during their life, as we consistently need to categorize the things and experience that we encounter. Such need is reflected in language via various mechanisms, the most prominent being nominal classification systems (e.g. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Fokus ålder : betydelserelationer och betydelseförändring i användning

    Författare :Jenny Magnusson; Jan Anward; Angelika Linke; Jan Svensson; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Age; year; newspapers; corpus linguistic; semantics; meaning; language; collocation; attribute; lexical relations; Ålder; år; åring; årig; dagstidningar; korpuslingvistik; semantik; betydelse; språk; kollokation; attribut; lexikala relationer; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to study how words denoting age are used in newspaper texts. I have chosen mainly to study the following Swedish focus words for females and males of different ages (flicka, kvinna, tjej, dam; pojke, man, kille and herre) as they relate to age. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Object marking in the signed modality : Verbal and nominal strategies in Swedish Sign Language and other sign languages

    Författare :Carl Börstell; Maria Koptjevskaja Tamm; Irit Meir; Roland Pfau; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; sign language; object marking; differential object marking; argument structure; transitivity; valency; directionality; handshape; pronoun; perspective; Swedish Sign Language; Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language; Israeli Sign Language; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : In this dissertation, I investigate various aspects of object marking and how these manifest themselves in the signed modality. The main focus is on Swedish Sign Language (SSL), the national sign language of Sweden, which is the topic of investigation in all five studies. LÄS MER

  7. 10. Ambiguity at work : lexical blends in an American English web news context

    Författare :Daniel Kjellander; Marlene Johansson Falck; Maria Rosenberg; Suzanne Kemmer; Umeå universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; lexical blending; data collection methodology; corpus-based investigation; ambiguity; figurativity; cognitive linguistics; teleskopord; datainsamlingsmetod; korpusundersökning; mångtydighet; figurativitet; kognitiv lingvistik; engelska; English; language studies; språkvetenskap; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the word formation process of lexical blending in the context of written US web news between January 2010–March 2018. The study has two interrelated aims. First, it aims to develop a transparent, rigid, and replicable method of data collection. LÄS MER