Search for dissertations about: "dissertation on applied linguistics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words dissertation on applied linguistics.

2. 1. “Speak your own language” : On tensions regarding Finnish in Sweden

   Author : Lasse Vuorsola; Jarmo Lainio; Päivi Juvonen; Sari Pietikäinen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; applied linguistics; language policy; linguistic landscape; spatial orientation; dialectal change; minority language; shortened infinitives in Finnish; orientations to language policy; finska; Finnish;

   Abstract : In this compilation dissertation I examine social tensions that relate to the Sweden Finnish minority and the Finnish language in Sweden. The dissertation is based on critical applied linguistics and I employ various related theoretical notions in the included articles. READ MORE

4. 2. 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

5. 3. Discourse Features in Balochi of Sistan : (Oral Narratives)

   Author : Behrooz Barjasteh Delforooz; Carina Jahani; Stephen H. Levinsohn; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Balochi; discourse studies; oral narratives; text linguistics; information structure; syntax; descriptive linguistics; fieldwork; Iranian languages; Iranian languages; Iranska språk; Iranska språk; Iranian Languages;

   Abstract : This work presents a first study of discourse features in Balochi narratives of Sistan. Discourse analysis investigates what are the properties that make for well-formed texts in a language. There are many approaches to discourse analysis and most approaches focus on a particular aspect of text formation. READ MORE

6. 4. Predicting Linguistic Structure with Incomplete and Cross-Lingual Supervision

   Author : Oscar Täckström; Joakim Nivre; Jussi Karlgren; Ryan McDonald; Hal Daumé III; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; linguistic structure prediction; structured prediction; latent-variable model; semi-supervised learning; multilingual learning; cross-lingual learning; indirect supervision; partial supervision; ambiguous supervision; part-of-speech tagging; dependency parsing; named-entity recognition; sentiment analysis; Computational Linguistics; Datorlingvistik;

   Abstract : Contemporary approaches to natural language processing are predominantly based on statistical machine learning from large amounts of text, which has been manually annotated with the linguistic structure of interest. However, such complete supervision is currently only available for the world's major languages, in a limited number of domains and for a limited range of tasks. READ MORE

7. 5. A Halich Karaim Bible Translation

   Author : Zsuzsanna Olach; Éva Ágnes Csató Johanson; Lars Johanson; Mats Eskhult; Marcel Erdal; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Karaim; Halich Karaim; Bible Translation; Code Copying; Turkiska språk; Turkic languages;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a corpus-based analysis of a translation of the Hebrew Bible into Halich Karaim, a Kipchak Turkic variety previously spoken in the present-day Ukraine. The corpus analysed in the thesis comprises sixty selected pages of a 596 page manuscript written in the Hebrew alphabet. READ MORE