Search for dissertations about: "functional languages"
Showing result 21 - 25 of 131 swedish dissertations containing the words functional languages.
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21. Grammar and grammaticalization in Manda: An analysis of the wider TAM domain in a Tanzanian Bantu language
Abstract : This dissertation offers a grammatical description and analysis of Manda (N.11), a Bantu language spoken along Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) in southern Tanzania. The study focuses on the “wider” TAM domain, i.e. READ MORE
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22. In the shoes of a soldier : Communication in Tim O'Brien's Vietnam narratives
Abstract : This is a study of the American writer Tim O'Brien's If I Die in a Combat Zone, Going After Cacciato, and The Things They Carried. Unlike previous O'Brien scholarship, which is either historical-biographical or formalistic, focusing on the contextual meaning or the literary merits of his narratives, this dissertation studies O'Brien's war narratives within a functional and communicative paradigm. READ MORE
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23. The Japanese Imperative
Abstract : The present thesis explores Japanese imperative constructions from a general linguistic perspective, as well as examining the imperative as a cross-linguistic object of study. On the definitional side, a terminological apparatus for the description and analysis of imperatives and directives is presented. READ MORE
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24. Automated Text Analytics in Swedish English Classrooms : The Design, Development, and Evaluation of a Supporting Tool
Abstract : This dissertation explores the design and application of a digital tool as a supporting aid for teachers of English in Swedish upper-secondary classrooms. The scope of this dissertation is the design, development and evaluation of a focus-on-form diagnostics tool in the Swedish upper-secondary English subject context. READ MORE
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25. Functional Polytypic Programming --- Use and Implementation
Abstract : Many functions have to be written over and over again for different datatypes, either because datatypes change during the development of programs, or because functions with similar functionality are needed on different datatypes. Examples of such functions are pretty printers, pattern matchers, equality functions, unifiers, rewriting functions, etc. READ MORE