Search for dissertations about: "in original texts and translations"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the words in original texts and translations.

  2. 1. Clefts in English and Swedish: A contrastive study of IT-clefts and WH-clefts in original texts and translations

    Author : Mats Johansson; Engelska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Engelska språk och litteratur ; English language and literature; information structure; ground; focus; discourse topic; topic; theme; discourse; fronting; wh-clefts; it-clefts; pseudo-cleft constructions; cleft constructions; bidirectional translation corpus; translation; corpus linguistics; contrastive linguistics; Swedish; English; Scandinavian languages and literature; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Abstract : This study investigates the use of cleft constructions in English and Swedish on the basis of a bidirectional translation corpus consisting of original English and Swedish texts and their translations into the other language. This design minimizes the problems inherent in corpora of original texts alone, viz. READ MORE

  4. 2. A corpus-based contrastive study of the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish

    Author : Anna-Lena Fredriksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; passive construction; active; middle; intransitive; contrastive study; cross-linguistic study; corpus-based; parallel corpus; translation; Swedish; English; network; transitivity; animacy; agent; patient; fiction; non-fiction; theme-rheme;

    Abstract : The present study investigates the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish. It is a bi-directional study that uses empirical fiction and non-fiction material in the form of original texts and their translations from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. READ MORE

  5. 3. Responsiones Vadstenenses : Perspectives on the Birgittine Rule in Two Texts from Vadstena and Syon Abbey. A Critical Edition with Translation and Introduction

    Author : Elin Andersson; Claes Gejrot; Hans Aili; Christina Thomsen Törnqvist; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin; Medieval Latin; Vadstena Abbey; Syon Abbey; St Albans; Saint Birgitta; the Birgittine order; Responsiones; Collacio; Regula Salvatoris; Addiciones Prioris Petri; medieval sermons; monasticism; monastic regulations; John Whethamstede; Thomas Fishbourne; Johannes Hildebrandi; Latin language; Latin; Latin; latin;

    Abstract : Syon Abbey, established as the first Birgittine monastery in England in 1415, quite soon became a powerful institution within the order. Although often asserting their own conceptions of the Rule, the English Birgittines still sought the advice of Vadstena, their mother house, when it came to certain important matters concerning monastic life. READ MORE

  6. 4. Language Technology for the Lazy : Avoiding Work by Using Statistics and Machine Learning

    Author : Jonas Sjöbergh; Viggo Kann; Kimmo Koshenniemi; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; computer science; Computer science; Datalogi;

    Abstract : Language technology is when a computer processes human languages in some way. Since human languages are irregular and hard to define in detail, this is often difficult. Despite this, good results can many times be achieved. Often a lot of manual work is used in creating these systems though. READ MORE