Search for dissertations about: "attributive"

Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word attributive.

2. 1. "Honourable" or "Highly-sexed" : Adjectival Descriptions of Male and Female Characters in Victorian and Contemporary Children's Fiction

   Author : Hanna Andersdotter Sveen; Merja Kytö; Claudia Claridge; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; 19th-century English; adjectives; attributive; British National Corpus; characters; children s fiction; contemporary; corpus linguistics; description; evaluative meaning; female; gender; male; part description; predicative; semantic domains; syntactic function; Victorian; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This corpus-based study examines adjectives and adjectival expressions used to describe characters in British children’s fiction. The focus is on diachronic variation, by comparing Victorian (19th-century) and contemporary (late 20th-century) children’s fiction, and on gender variation, by comparing the descriptions of female and male characters. READ MORE

4. 2. Development of Adjectival Use and Meaning Structures in Swedish Students' Written production

   Author : Simone Löhndorf; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Later language development; semantic development; conceptual development; Conceptual combinations; adjective meanings; nominal meanings; Cognitive Linguistics;

   Abstract : This thesis is about the development of adjective use and meaning structures examined from a cognitive linguistic perspective. Adjectives modify nominal meanings and it is in context, in the interaction with the noun that the adjective meaning and configuration is determined. READ MORE

5. 3. Adverbs : A typological study of a disputed category

   Author : Pernilla Hallonsten Halling; Bernhard Wälchli; Tomas Riad; Martin Haspelmath; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; adverbs; adjectives; parts of speech; prototypes; categorization; modification; constructions; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Abstract : The notion adverb is often treated as encompassing leftover items in a class that shows little consistency both within and ​across languages. Adverbs are less frequent than other parts of speech cross-linguistically, they seldom inflect, and they are rarely used as a source for derivation to other categories. READ MORE

6. 4. God in the act of reference : A conceptual analysis of reference and reality and its consequences for the debate on religious realism and nonrealism

   Author : Erica Appelros; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Religion; reference; realism; nonrealism; Cupitt; reality; play; make-believe; pragmatics; God; Donnellan; Bezuidenhout; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Religion Theology; Religionsvetenskap Teologi; Studies In Faiths and Ideologies; tros- och livsåskådningsvetenskap;

   Abstract : The dissertation addresses the problem of reference actualised in religiousrealism's claim that religious nonrealism is religiously inadequate since init "God" does not refer to a God existing independently of human conceptualisations. The study aims to show that the referential argument against religious nonrealism is not necessarily successful once the existential and referential presumptions of the argument are critically examined. READ MORE

7. 5. Temporal support for land information systems in object-oriented modeling

   Author : Jaeik Liou; KTH; []
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   Abstract : With the development of distributed object technologies andthe overwhelming advent of the Web, an object-oriented datamodel for GIS/LIS is proposed, possessing significantlyincreasing importance and application, when movingfrom astatic position to a distributed and heterogeneous view. Theconceptual model of land information hinges on a complexspatio-temporal object model for defining not only collectionsof land parcel objects but also distributions of them within afour domain framework. READ MORE