Search for dissertations about: "pronouns"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 31 swedish dissertations containing the word pronouns.

  2. 6. Position of objective personal pronouns : a study of word order in modern Russian

    Author : Dag Svedstedt; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; slaviska språk; Slavic Languages;

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  4. 7. Breaking the Binary : Attitudes towards and cognitive effects of gender-neutral pronouns

    Author : Hellen P. Vergoossen; Marie Gustafsson Sendén; Håkan Fischer; Philip Pärnamets; Peter Hegarty; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; gender-fair language; gender-neutral pronouns; hen; Psychology; psykologi;

    Abstract : For a long time, Swedish only had two third-person singular pronouns: hon [‘she’] and han [‘he’]. Following several publications using the gender-neutral pronoun hen to refer to its characters, a debate article in a national newspaper proposed expanding the Swedish pronouns with hen. READ MORE

  5. 8. Acquisition of reference to self and others in Greek Sign Language : From pointing gesture to pronominal pointing signs

    Author : Marianna Hatzopoulou; Brita Bergman; Richard P. Meier; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; deaf children; Greek Sign Language; personal pronouns; pointing; pointing signs; reference; sign language acquisition; Sign language; Teckenspråk; Sign Language; teckenspråk;

    Abstract : This dissertation explores the emergence of the linguistic use of pointing as first- and non-first-person pronoun in Greek Sign Language. Despite the similarity in form between the pointing gesture and pronominal pointing signs, children acquiring sign language pass through the same stages and acquire personal pronouns at about the same age as children acquiring spoken language. READ MORE

  6. 9. Gender and representation : investigations of bias in natural language processing

    Author : Hannah Devinney; Henrik Björklund; Jenny Björklund; Christian Hardmeier; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; NLP; natural language processing; gender bias; social impact of AI; gendered pronouns; neopronouns; gender studies; topic modeling; Computer Science; datalogi; computational linguistics; datorlingvistik; genusvetenskap; gender studies;

    Abstract : Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies are a part of our every day realities. They come in forms we can easily see as ‘language technologies’ (auto-correct, translation services, search results) as well as those that fly under our radar (social media algorithms, 'suggested reading' recommendations on news sites, spam filters). READ MORE

  7. 10. Small Clauses in Swedish : Towards a Unified Account

    Author : Katarina Lundin; Svenska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ECM; object with infinitive; absolute construction; EPP; Agree; tense; matrix clause; periphrastic passive; light verbs; reflexive pronouns; participles; vP; TP; Small Clause; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Scandinavian languages and literature; Merge; chain formation; object predicative; CP;

    Abstract : In this thesis I offer a unified syntactic account of the small clauses involved in Swedish object-with-infinitive constructions (ECM), object predicative constructions and absolute constructions. In the present framework, this similarity is conceptually appealing and is also supported by empirical data. READ MORE