Sökning: "Corpus Construction"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 47 uppsatser innehållade orden Corpus Construction.

1. 1. Could this phrase be more constructional? : A Construction Grammar approach to the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase from the television show Friends

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Linn Nordlander; [2024]
   Nyckelord :construction grammar; information structure; CXBMY; SAI; constructions; rhetorical questions; parody;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase (CXBMY), well-known from the television show Friends, to argue for its qualification as a construction. By analyzing the phrase’s formal and functional features, as well as its frequency in the COCA corpus, this thesis compares the findings to the definition of constructions by Goldberg (2006, p. LÄS MER

3. 2. A comparison study of the JBXDMY construction inAmerican and British English

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Sebastian Sandström; [2023]
   Nyckelord :;

   Sammanfattning : 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

4. 3. “This is what a feminist looks like" : A comparative case study of neoliberal discourses from Thatcher to May and its gendered implications

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

   Författare :Sofia Antila; [2023]
   Nyckelord :Neoliberalism; Intersectionality; Feminism; Discourse Analysis; Conservatism; Political Discourses.;

   Sammanfattning : Tracing the construction of gender neoliberalism in the United Kingdom with the context of austerity measures and increased social divisions stemming from the European Union referendum, this research analyses the way political discourses act to legitimize gender neoliberalism as the hegemonic rationality in the Conservative Party. Undertaking a comparative case study approach, this study aims to examine the evolution of neoliberal rationality in political discourses between the two female Prime Ministers of the country, namely, Margaret Thatcher and Theresa May. LÄS MER

5. 4. Nicht-Substantive im Deutschen : Die verschiedenen Gesichter der Negation

   Kandidat-uppsats, Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

   Författare :Edwige Dugas; [2022]
   Nyckelord :morphology; negation; German; prefixation; construction grammar;

   Sammanfattning : Abstract: This dissertation deals with nominal constructions in nicht- ([Nicht-S]) in German from a synchronic perspective within the framework of construction grammar. On the basis of a corpus of [Nicht-S] drawn from the DWDS database, it is shown that the [Nicht-S] pattern is a morphological construction in which nicht- is a prefix. LÄS MER

7. 5. Existential Constructions and Constructions Predicating Existence

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

   Författare :Staffan Olsson; [2022]
   Nyckelord :existential constructions; typology; formality; corpus study; existenskonstruktioner; typologi; formalitet; korpusstudie;

   Sammanfattning : The term existential construction has been argued to be a misnomer, as the primary function of these constructions is not to predicate existence. In this study, I compare these constructions with ones whose primary function is to predicate existence using a stratified sample of European languages. LÄS MER