Sökning: "spoken corpus"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 56 avhandlingar innehållade orden spoken corpus.

  1. 1. Evidential marking in spoken English : Linguistic functions and gender variation

    Författare :Erika Berglind Söderqvist; Merja Kytö; Angela Hoffman; Marta Carretero; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Evidentiality; spoken language; English; corpus linguistics; gender; style; pragmatics; sociolinguistics; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the marking of evidentiality in spoken British English. Evidentiality is the linguistic expression of whether and how a speaker/writer has access to evidence for or against the truth of a proposition, and it is usually manifested in the form of sensory evidentiality (e.g. I saw Sam leave), hearsay evidentiality (e. LÄS MER

  3. 2. English in spoken Swedish : a corpus study of two discourse domains

    Författare :Harriet Sharp; Stig Johansson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  4. 3. Agreement with Collective Nouns in English

    Författare :Magnus Levin; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; markedness; Longman Spoken American Corpus; grammatical change; corpus; conventionalization; concord; conceptualization; collective nouns; British National Corpus; British English; BNC; Australian English; American English; agreement; Agreement Hierarchy; pronouns; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; syntax; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik; agreement; English language; Engelsk språkvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns agreement with collective nouns in American, British and Australian English. It is based on material from newspaper corpora and spoken corpora. The findings suggest that dialectal, stylistic, diachronic, syntactic and semantic factors interact in the selection of singular and plural agreement. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Case Endings in Spoken Standard Arabic

    Författare :Andreas Hallberg; Arabiska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern Standard Arabic; corpus linguistics; spoken language;

    Sammanfattning : Morphologically marked case is a salient Standard Arabic feature without parallel in Arabic dialects. As such it is a grammatical system learned by native speakers of Arabic through formal education. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Syntactic variation in English quantified noun phrases with all, whole, both and half

    Författare :Maria Estling; Graeme Kennedy; Växjö universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; syntactic variation; quantifiers; all; whole; both; half; linguistic factors; British English; American English; Australian English; grammaticalisation; totality; corpus; newspaper corpus; English language; Engelska språket;

    Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the present study is to investigate syntactic variation in certain Present-day English noun phrase types including the quantifiers all, whole, both and half (e.g. a half hour vs. half an hour). LÄS MER