Search for dissertations about: "Scandinavian Linguistics"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Scandinavian Linguistics.

2. 16. Text Harmonization Strategies for Phrase-Based Statistical Machine Translation

   Author : Sara Stymne; Lars Ahrenberg; Joakim Nivre; Nizar Habash; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Statistical machine translation; text harmonization; compound words; definiteness; reordering; unknown words;

   Abstract : In this thesis I aim to improve phrase-based statistical machine translation (PBSMT) in a number of ways by the use of text harmonization strategies. PBSMT systems are built by training statistical models on large corpora of human translations. This architecture generally performs well for languages with similar structure. READ MORE

4. 17. Authentic Language : Övdalsk, metapragmatic exchange and the margins of Sweden’s linguistic market

   Author : David Karlander; Kenneth Hyltenstam; Christopher Stroud; Tomas Riad; Judith T. Irvine; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; authenticity; history of linguistic thought; indexicality; linguistic anthropology; linguistic minorities; metalanguage; metapragmatics; philosophical anthropology; Övdalsk; autenticitet; filosofisk antropologi; indexikalitet; lingvistisk antropologi; metaspråk; metapragmatik; språkliga minoriteter; språkvetenskapens idéhistoria; älvdalska; Bilingualism; tvåspråkighet;

   Abstract : This compilation thesis engages with practices that in some way place stakes in the social existence of Övdalsk (also älvdalska, Elfdalian, Övdalian), a marginal form of Scandinavian used mainly in Sweden’s Älvdalen municipality. The practices at hand range from early 20th century descriptive dialectology and contemporary lay-linguistics to language advocacy and language political debate. READ MORE

5. 18. Structures in Germanic Prosody : A diachronic study with special reference to the Nordic languages

   Author : Tomas Riad; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

   Abstract : This study provides a reconstruction of the development of the Germanic stress and syllabification system (as reflected in Gothic and Proto-Nordic) up to the completion of the quantity shift in Late Old Swedish. By means of current prosodic theory it is established that a domain of two moras wordinitially is present at all stages of development, in Gothic, Old English and Proto-Nordic as well as in Modem Swedish. READ MORE

6. 19. Permeable islands : A contrastive study of Swedish and English adjunct clause extractions

   Author : Christiane Müller; Svenska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; acceptability judgments; adjunct islands; coherence; filler-gap dependencies; finiteness; Swedish; syntax;

   Abstract : This dissertation is concerned with extraction from adjunct clauses in Swedish and English. The topic is of interest because adjunct clauses are traditionally considered to be strong islands for extraction across languages (the Adjunct Condition). READ MORE

7. 20. The extended voice : Instances of myth in the Indo-European corpus

   Author : Peter Jackson; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; Indo-European poetics; Vedic religion; Greek religion; pre-Christian Scandinavian religion; myth; oral tradition; oral literature; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

   Abstract : Proceeding from the presence of recurrent, poetic phrases and verbal collocations in early texts composed in Indo-European languages, this study is an attempt to elucidate some fundamental problems of myth, tradition and culture. The scholarly study of Indo-European religions and mythology-initiated during the 19th century and proceeding up to modem times with varying success-has often been devoted to the task of restoring a homogeneous system of Indo-European religious beliefs by searching for deep-seated reflexes of such a system in the historically attainable cultures. READ MORE