Search for dissertations about: "syntactic features"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 39 swedish dissertations containing the words syntactic features.

  2. 1. On the Relative Order of Adverbs in the I-domain: A study of English and Swedish

    Author : Fabian Beijer; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Relativized Minimality; Starke 2001 ; Cinque 1999 ; Minimalist Program; PAROLE; BNC; functional sequence; functional projection; functional head; hierarchical order; Swedish; English; I-domain; AdvP; adverb phrase; adverb; adverbial; syntactic features; word order; merge; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : This dissertation is a theoretical and empirical investigation of the ordering of adverbs in the I-domain. Within the generative-minimalist framework, adverbs have traditionally been analysed as adjuncts, adjoined to the syntactic structure in semantically appropriate positions (e.g. Jackendoff 1972). READ MORE

  4. 2. Word order and syntactic features in the Scandinavian languages and English

    Author : Anders Holmberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Nordiska språk; Engelska språket; Ordföljd; Syntax;

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  5. 3. Discourse Features in Balochi of Sistan : (Oral Narratives)

    Author : Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz; Carina Jahani; Stephen H. Levinsohn; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Balochi; discourse studies; oral narratives; text linguistics; information structure; syntax; descriptive linguistics; fieldwork; Iranian languages; Iranian languages; Iranska språk; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

    Abstract : This work presents a first study of discourse features in Balochi narratives of Sistan. Discourse analysis investigates what are the properties that make for well-formed texts in a language. There are many approaches to discourse analysis and most approaches focus on a particular aspect of text formation. READ MORE

  6. 4. Argument Differentiation. Soft constraints and data-driven models

    Author : Lilja Øvrelid; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; syntactic arguments; parsing; lexical acquisition; animacy; Scandinavian syntax; soft constraints; data-driven models; machine learning;

    Abstract : The ability to distinguish between different types of arguments is central to syntactic analysis, whether studied from a theoretical or computational point of view. This thesis investigates the influence and interaction of linguistic properties of syntactic arguments in argument differentiation. READ MORE

  7. 5. The Progressive in 19th-Century English : A Process of Integration

    Author : Erik Smitterberg; Merja Kytö; Marianne Hundt; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; The progressive; 19th-century English; diachronic studies; corpus linguistics; syntactic variation; verb phrase; aspect; dimensions of variation; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

    Abstract : The present work is a corpus-based study of the English progressive during the 19th century. The study is based on Conce, a one-million-word corpus covering the period 1800–1900 and comprising seven genres, both speech-related and non-speech-related. READ MORE