Search for dissertations about: "Nouns"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 41 swedish dissertations containing the word Nouns.

  2. 1. Agreement with Collective Nouns in English

    Author : Magnus Levin; Engelska; []
    Keywords : 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;

    Abstract : 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. READ MORE

  4. 2. "Another thing" : Discourse-organising nouns in advanced learner English

    Author : Marie Tåqvist; Solveig Granath; Hilde Hasselgård; Susan Hunston; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; discourse-organising nouns; lexical cohesion; register; academic writing; L2 learners; systemic-functional linguistics; learner corpus research; Contrastive Interlanguage Analysis; ICLE; LOCNESS; ICE; English; Engelska;

    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

  5. 3. On the function of abstract nouns in Latin

    Author : Hans Helander; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin language; Latin;

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  6. 4. The formation of abstract nouns in the Uralic languages

    Author : Oscar Lazar; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap;

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  7. 5. Concreteness, Specificity and Emotional Content in Swedish Nouns : Neurocognitive Studies of Word Meaning

    Author : Frida Blomberg; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; abstract; concrete; nouns; semantics; specificity; emotion; imageability; anomia; word ratings; EEG; ERP; N400; N700; dichotic listening; hemispheric lateralisation; lexical decision; Swedish; neurolinguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : The present thesis investigated Swedish nouns differing in concreteness, specificity and emotional content using linguistic, psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic methods. The focus of Paper I was a semantic analysis of discourse produced by a person with a lesion in visual (left occipital) cortex. READ MORE