Search for dissertations about: "Thing"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 127 swedish dissertations containing the word Thing.
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1. "Another thing" : Discourse-organising nouns in advanced learner English
Abstract : This study examines the use of discourse-organising nouns (DONs), such as fact, issue, and problem, in Swedish advanced students’ academic writing in second language (L2) English, and in what ways texts produced by the L2 students resemble or differ from those produced by advanced native-speaker (L1) students and from expert writing in this respect. The study uses corpus linguistic methodology and is set within the frameworks of Halliday’s systemic-functional linguistics and Granger’s Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis. READ MORE
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2. On the principles of word formation in Swedish
Abstract : My thesis is an attempt to give a minimalist account of word formation in Swedish. (See Chomsky (1993) and (1994).) In the main part of my thesis I demonstrate how the proposed system accounts for the central aspects of Swedish word formation. READ MORE
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3. The Archaeological Encounter in British Fiction, 1880–1940
Abstract : Ancient artefacts appeared frequently in late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century British fiction. Prehistoric stone circles, enigmatic potsherds, Egyptian mummies, and other such antiquities featured in everything from fin de siècle adventure narratives to the major works of High Modernism. READ MORE
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4. Transformative decision rules and axiomatic arguments for the principle of Maximizing Expected Utility
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5. Integrated Requirements Engineering – Understanding and Bridging Gaps in Software Development
Abstract : Software systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and can be found in devices we use every day from mobile phones to cars. As our reliance on software-based systems increases, our tolerance with software that is ill-fitted to our needs decreases. We expect these devices to function whenever and however we need them to. READ MORE