Search for dissertations about: "Persian"

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

2. 1. Persian Orthography : Modification or Changeover? (1850-2000)

   Author : Forogh Hashabeiky; Bo Utas; Carina Jahani; Éva Jeremiás; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Iranian languages; Persian; Persian orthography; Arabic alphabet; modification; changeover; romanization; orthographic conventions; bound and unbound writing; Iranska språk - allmänt; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Abstract : The present study provides a description of the standardization process of Persian orthography since the introduction of the Arabic alphabet, with a focus on this process in modern times (1850-2000). Using theories related to orthography standardization as its background, this work seeks an explanation for the prolonged standardization process of Persian orthography, and presents the frameworks within which this standardization has been carried out. READ MORE

4. 2. Persian Writing on Music : A study of Persian musical literature from 1000 to 1500 AD

   Author : Mehrdad Fallahzadeh; Bo Utas; Anders Hammarlund; Jean During; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Iranian languages; Persian literature; writings on music; religious and non-religious approaches; music theory; samā‘; topic; periodization; Iranska språk - allmänt; iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Abstract : This dissertation is an attempt to understand and map the development of Persian writings on music, focusing on their various approaches and variations of topics from the beginning of the 11th century to the end of the 15th century which can be called the classical period of Persian writing on music. The rise of Persian musical literature as a part of Persian learned literature was a result of the political and cultural decentralization of the Abbasid Caliphate. READ MORE

5. 3. Morphosyntactic Corpora and Tools for Persian

   Author : Mojgan Seraji; Joakim Nivre; Carina Jahani; Jan Hajic; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Persian; language technology; corpus; treebank; preprocessing; segmentation; part-of-speech tagging; dependency parsing; Computational Linguistics; Datorlingvistik;

   Abstract : This thesis presents open source resources in the form of annotated corpora and modules for automatic morphosyntactic processing and analysis of Persian texts. More specifically, the resources consist of an improved part-of-speech tagged corpus and a dependency treebank, as well as tools for text normalization, sentence segmentation, tokenization, part-of-speech tagging, and dependency parsing for Persian. READ MORE

6. 4. Event conceptualisation and aspect in L2 English and Persian : An application of the Heidelberg–Paris model

   Author : Somaje Abdollahian Barough; Philip Shaw; Carina Jahani; Maria Kuteeva; Bergljot Behrens; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; event conceptualisation; event construal; language production; progressivity; internal structure; conceptual transfer; L1 influence; L2 learning; L2 user; dāštan-progressive; bare mi-form; imperfective; perfective; perspective-taking; English; Persian; English; engelska;

   Abstract : The present project investigates the impact of the grammaticalised progressive on event conceptualisation in English and Persian. It applies the Heidelberg–Paris framework using single event descriptions for analysis at the sentence level and story re-narrations at the discourse level. READ MORE

7. 5. Nation and Novel : A Study of Persian and Kurdish narrative discourse

   Author : Hashem Ahmadzadeh; Martin van Bruinessen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Iranian languages; Modern Persian literature; modern Kurdish literature; novel; Persian novel; Kurdish novel; nationalism; nation; identity; modernity; Iran; Kurdistan; Iranska språk - allmänt; iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Abstract : The present work provides a description of the rise of the Persian and Kurdish novel, using as its background specific definitions and theories of the novel and its emergence. Considering the novel as an originally European genre, the study looks at the different prerequisites for its emergence, e.g. READ MORE