Sökning: "English word-formation"

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1. 6. Functional shift and semantic change in Lord of the Rings Online

   Kandidat-uppsats, Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

   Författare :Susanne Norlin; [2013]
   Nyckelord :Semantic change; functional shift; LotRO; MMORPG; English; pejoration; word formation process; metaphorical extension; amelioration; widening; denominal verbs.;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to identify functional shifts and semantic changes in the Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game Lord of the Rings Online. The focus is on new uses of established terms in Standard English and the intent is to see how the word formation processes work in an online gaming environment, and identify the possible reasons behind them. LÄS MER

3. 7. Productivity Measurements Applied to Ten English Prefixes : A comparison of different measures of morphological productivity based on ten prefixes in English

   Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Linnéa Joandi; [2012]
   Nyckelord :Morphological productivity; word-formation; prefixation; type frequency; token frequency; hapax legomena; Productivity in the narrow sense ;

   Sammanfattning : Morphological productivity is difficult to define and describe. Nevertheless have several measures been proposed by scholars, in order to quantify this notion. This paper investigates ten common English prefixes with meanings related to degree or size. LÄS MER

4. 8. ‘LOL’, ‘OMG’ and Other Acronyms and Abbreviations : A study in the creation of initialisms

   Kandidat-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Ida Lundell; [2012]
   Nyckelord :Morphology; acronyms; abbreviations; initialisms; slang; corpus linguistics; the Internet; netspeak;

   Sammanfattning : Marchand (1969) claims that abbreviations and acronyms, which are also known as ‘initialisms’, are used to create “names of new scientific discoveries, trade-names, names of organizations, new foundations or offices, but occasionally, and chiefly in American English, personal and geographical names are also coined in this way” (Marchand, 1969: 452). However, initialisms that originate from netspeak, such as ‘LOL’, are different from the initialisms Marchand (1969) describes. LÄS MER

5. 9. A Study of Acquiring L2 Vocabulary Through Using Word Part Strategy

   Magister-uppsats, Sektionen för Lärarutbildning

   Författare :XINJIE LIU; [2011]
   Nyckelord :word part strategy; vocabulary acquisition; affix knowledge;

   Sammanfattning : Vocabulary learning strategy plays an important role in vocabulary acquisition; one of the major vocabulary strategies is word part strategy. The purpose of this study is to investigate whether word part strategy can help students to understand words and facilitate vocabulary acquisition. LÄS MER

7. 10. Investigating British and American English : Dictionary research and corpus investigation

   Magister-uppsats, Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Malcolm Golmann; [2009]
   Nyckelord :Americanism; Briticism; dictionary dating; corpus investigation; corpus evidence; lexical borrowing; lexical classification; lexical items; etymology; word formation.;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of this Magister Degree Project has been to investigate if can corpora be used to investigate patterns of lexical distribution and/or borrowing from one variety to another. Another aim has been to investigate how well classification of lexical items as either “British” or “American” supported by evidence from corpora of English. LÄS MER