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6. A comparison study of the JBXDMY construction inAmerican and British English
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : The "Just Because X Doesn't Mean Y" (JBXDMY) construction initially emerged in the1850s as a spoken expression, typically employed to convey a negative implication to theinterlocutor. This syntactic structure is prevalent in both British and American English, withthe most frequently observed variant in the British corpora being "Just Because X doesn'tmean Y," and in the American corpora, "X That doesn't mean Y. LÄS MER
7. Comparison of Indirect Inference and the Two Stage Approach
Kandidat-uppsats, KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)Sammanfattning : Parametric models are used to understand dynamical systems and predict its future behavior. It is difficult to estimate the model’s parametric values since there are usually many parameters and they are highly correlated. LÄS MER
8. You Can't Beat That Feeling
Kandidat-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för design (DE)Sammanfattning : My project aims to inform and enlighten people in our society about what Coca-Cola is doing wrong. Welive in a society that is fueled by consumerism which is not sustainable for us and our planet. If we keepup with today’s consumer pace, we will soon have nothing left. It is time that we as a society take chargeof what is right and wrong. LÄS MER
9. A Study of Semantic Change in the Word viral
Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälleSammanfattning : With diachronic corpus over the time periods, I selected a word that might be suitable for this type of study for detecting if potential semantic changes have occurred. In this study, I explored the lexical semantics of the word viral to see if the World Wide Web (WWW) has influenced the word. LÄS MER
10. Cactuses or Cacti? : A corpus-based study on the use of Latin nominal inflection in American English
Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenSammanfattning : As a result of language contact and influence, the English language contains a significant amount of lexical items borrowed from other languages. Whilst the borrowing of inflectional morphology is not very common, English does use several Latin plurals in their original form. LÄS MER