Search for dissertations about: "dictionaries"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 28 swedish dissertations containing the word dictionaries.

  2. 1. Idioms Unlimited. A study of non-canonical forms of English verbal idioms in the British National Corpus

    Author : Elisabeth Gustawsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; idiom; corpus; transparency; isomorphicity; modification; derivation; permutation; non-canonical; figurative;

    Abstract : The study is a corpus-based investigation of the semantic, lexical, and grammatical flexibility of English verbal idioms, focusing on qualitative analyses of examples of current British English usage. 300 verbal idioms - i.e. idioms that consist of a verb and a complement, e. READ MORE

  4. 2. The effects of planned change on Estonian morphology

    Author : Virve Raag; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finno-Ugric languages - general; Estonian; language change; language planning; morphology; synthetic forms; analyticforms; illative singular; plural formation; superlative; Johannes Aavik; Finsk-ugriska språk - allmänt; Finno-Ugric languages; Finsk-ugriska språk; Finno-Ugric Languages; finsk-ugriska språk;

    Abstract : This work is a contribution to the fascinating and highly controversial issue of language planning, i.e. intentional human intervention in language change. Language planning, as any intentional alteration of language, is always interconnected with questions of natural development and change in language. READ MORE

  5. 3. A War of Words

    Author : Torkel Lindquist; Witold ´Witakowski; Bo Isaksson; Ilan Pappé; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Semitic languages - general; terrorism; War on terrorism; defining terrorism; Arabic; Hebrew; terminology of violence; semantics; pragmatics; propaganda; 11 9; ‘the other’; ‘the enemy’; massmedia; press; Israeli press; Arab press; political discourse; extracting a definition from media; Semitiska språk - allmänt; Semitic languages; Semitiska språk; semitiska språk; Semitic Languages;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to come to an understanding of the meanings of words pertaining to acts of political violence in modern Arabic and Hebrew. The semantics of these terms will be established by comparison between the meaning in dictionaries of modern and classical Arabic and Hebrew, the meaning in the Koran and the Bible as well as the meaning we extract from the context in the newspapers where the terminology is found. READ MORE

  6. 4. Basic Tendencies of Adjectival Accentological Development in Contemporary Russian

    Author : Julia Larsson; Öst- och centraleuropakunskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; foreign languages teaching; Applied linguistics; Baltic and Slavonic languages and literatures; Baltiska och slaviska språk språk och litteratur ; sociolinguistics; Tillämpad lingvistik; undervisning i främmande språk; sociolingvistik;

    Abstract : The present doctoral thesis is a study of the problem of "variation" in relation to word-stress in Russian adjectives, in both their short and long forms. The stress variation in adjectival forms is investigated from various viewpoints, the main of which is the revelation of the basic processes of stress reorganisation in these groups of words and the establishment of main tendencies of adjectival stress development in contemporary Russian. READ MORE

  7. 5. Basic Tendencies of Adjectival Accentological Development in Contemporary Russian

    Author : Julia Larsson; Öst- och centraleuropakunskap; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ryska språk och litteratur ; Russian language and literature; semantisation; grammaticalisation; pragmatic factor; explicit norm; language norm; Russian; stress variant; variation; accentology; Stress; accentuation; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; syntax; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik;

    Abstract : The present doctoral thesis is a study of the problem of "variation" in relation to word stress in Russian adjectives, in both their short and long forms. The stress variation in adjectival forms is investigated from various viewpoints, the main of which is the revelation of the basic processes of stress reorganisation in these groups of words and the establishment of main tendencies of adjectival stress development in contemporary Russian. READ MORE