Search for dissertations about: "historical texts translation"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 swedish dissertations containing the words historical texts translation.

2. 1. Belfast Textiles : On Ciaran Carson’s Poetics

   Author : Jenny Malmqvist; Lars-Håkan Svensson; Jan Anward; Ann-Sofie Persson; Charles Armstrong; Linköpings universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Irish poetry; Ciaran Carson; poetics; intertextuality; translation; Irländsk poesi; Ciaran Carson; poetik; intertextualitet; översättning;

   Abstract : This thesis is a study of the formation and development of Ciaran Carson’s poetics from his debut in the 1970s up to and including his fourth principal collection of poems, First Language, published in 1993. Examining Carson’s recourse to different kinds of rewriting, made manifest as intertextuality and translation, it aims to account for the thematic formulation and formal realization of this poetics. READ MORE

4. 2. Spelling Normalisation and Linguistic Analysis of Historical Text for Information Extraction

   Author : Eva Pettersson; Joakim Nivre; Beáta Megyesi; Michael Piotrowski; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : NLP for historical text; spelling normalisation; digital humanities; information extraction; character-based statistical machine translation; SMT; Levenshtein edit distance; language technology; computational linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Datorlingvistik;

   Abstract : Historical text constitutes a rich source of information for historians and other researchers in humanities. Many texts are however not available in an electronic format, and even if they are, there is a lack of NLP tools designed to handle historical text. READ MORE

5. 3. The Early Latin Poetry of Sylvester Johannis Phrygius : Edited, with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

   Author : Peter Sjökvist; Hans Helander; Minna Skafte-Jensen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin language; Sylvester Johannis Phrygius; John III of Sweden; Duke John of Sweden; Charles IX of Sweden; Neo-Latin; allegory; baroque style; consolatory literature; Counter-Reformation; eclogue; emblems; funeral literature; mannerism; occasional poetry; Vergil; Latin; Latin; Latin;

   Abstract : This thesis contains three major portions of the early Latin poetry of the theologian Sylvester Johannis Phrygius (1572–1628), one of the most pro-lific and important Swedish poets at the turn of the 17th century.The verses exhibit marked influence from the Protestant Universities of Northern Germany at which Phrygius had studied. READ MORE

6. 4. Andreas Norrelius' Latin translation of Johan Kemper's Hebrew commentary on Matthew edited with introduction and philological commentary

   Author : Josef Eskhult; Hans Helander; Toon Van Houdt; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Johan Kemper; Andreas Norrelius; Neo-Latin; scholarly prose; synchronic approach; Neo-Latin usage; Neo-Latin style; Neo-Latin vocabulary; Christian Hebraists; philosemitism; translation technique; ecclesiastical Latin; Latin translations of the Bible; Latin language; Latin; Latin; Latin;

   Abstract : This thesis contains an edition of the Swedish Hebraist Andreas Norrelius’ (1679-1749) Latin translation, Illuminatio oculorum (1749), of the converted rabbi Johan Kemper’s (1670-1716) Hebrew commentary on Matthew, Me’irat ‘Enayim (1703). The dissertation is divided into three parts. READ MORE

7. 5. Sergius of Reshaina, Introduction to Aristotle and his Categories, Addressed to Philotheos : Syriac Text, with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary

   Author : Sami Aydin; Mats Eskhult; Witold Witakowski; Daniel King; Sebastian P. Brock; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sergius of Reshaina; Sargīs of Rēšʿaynā; Aristotle; Categories; Physics; Syriac.;

   Abstract : There are two related texts extant in Syriac written by the physician and commentator Sergius of Reshaina (d. 536) about the philosophy of Aristotle. This book provides a critical edition and a facing English translation of the shorter of these texts. The edition is based on the single preserved manuscript of the text (Berlin, Petermann I 9). READ MORE