Search for dissertations about: "prepositional phrases"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words prepositional phrases.
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1. Verbs of Motion with Directional Prepositions and Prefixes in Xenophon's Anabasis
Abstract : The thesis compares different prepositions and verbal prefixes denoting direction in Ancient Greek. The corpus covers passages in Xenophon’s Anabasis where such directional elements are used. READ MORE
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2. Noun Phrases in British Travel Texts : A Corpus-Based Study
Abstract : This study is a corpus-based investigation of the structure and variation of noun phrases in three types of British texts on tourism and travel. Based on their publishing formats, the corpus texts are divided into three Text categories: tourist brochures, newspaper feature articles dealing with travel and tourism, and travel guides. READ MORE
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3. Media Arabic Grammar and Semantics. Clauses and non-core elements : A corpus investigation of print hard news
Abstract : ”Media Arabic” is taught on universities all over the world and its understanding ranks among the top-reasons for students to pursue Arabic studies. The coursebooks on ”Media Arabic” focus on print hard news and tacitly assume the existence of an Arabic journalese. Previous research on Arabic newspaper language is scarce. READ MORE
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4. Conversational Writing : A Multidimensional Study of Synchronous and Supersynchronous Computer-Mediated Communication
Abstract : This study is a linguistic investigation of two genres of computer-mediated communication (CMC), namely two modes of conversational writing: ‘Internet relay chat’ (synchronous CMC) and ‘split-window ICQ chat’ (supersynchronous CMC). The study employs Douglas Biber’s multifeature multidimensional methodology, taking into account the six dimensions of textual variation in English identified in his 1988 book Variation across speech and writing (i. READ MORE
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5. The Multilingual Forest : Investigating High-quality Parallel Corpus Development
Abstract : This thesis explores the development of parallel treebanks, collections of language data consisting of texts and their translations, with syntactic annotation and alignment, linking words, phrases, and sentences to show translation equivalence. We describe the semi-manual annotation of the SMULTRON parallel treebank, consisting of 1,000 sentences in English, German and Swedish. READ MORE