Sökning: "Languages and linguistics"

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  1. 1. ‘NOTHING IS IN VAIN': Non-Standard Negation and Cyclical Change in Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Författare :Aron Zahran; [2023-10-31]
    Nyckelord :Engelska; Bantu; Morphosyntax; Historical Linguistics; Grammaticalization; Descriptive Linguistics; Typology; Negation; Possessive Predication; Locational Predication; Negative Existentials; Semantic Change;

    Sammanfattning : This work concerns the polyfunctionality and grammaticalization of an item bule in the under described Tanzanian Bantu languages, Kutu, Kwere, and Zalamo. Through collection and analysis of field data, it is shown that the original adverbial element bule ‘for free, in vain, for no reason’ has developed a wide range of functions within the domain of non-standard negation. LÄS MER

  3. 2. WHO’S AFRAID OF COMPLEXITY? An Exploration of the Influence of Native Language Complexity on L2 Complexity

    Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Författare :Nadina Mariana Suditu; [2023-06-19]
    Nyckelord :complexity; SLA; TTR; entropy; kolmogorov; linear regression;

    Sammanfattning : The matter of linguistic complexity has been widely scrutinised in the last few decades, within theoretical linguistics, as well as in second language acquisition studies. A concept introduced in the last half of the previous century, it continues to be a matter of debate in the linguistic field, as it eludes a clear-cut definition and interpretation. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Multilingual Text Robots for Abstract Wikipedia – Using Grammatical Framework to generate multilingual articles on Swedish localities

    Kandidat-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik

    Författare :Omar Diriye; Filip Folkesson; Erik NIlsson; Felix NIlsson; William NIlsson; Dylan Osolian; [2023-03-03]
    Nyckelord :Text robot; Natural Language Generation; Grammatical Framework; Multilingual Natural Language Generation; Abstract Wikipedia; Wikidata;

    Sammanfattning : The vast amount of Wikipedia articles and languages has resulted in a high cost of Wikipedia, i.e. the required time and dedication for making every article available in every language. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Proficient speakers : A literature review on what it means to be orally proficient as a speaker of English

    Kandidat-uppsats, Jönköping University/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

    Författare :Kim Fahlström; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Fluency; speech; oral proficiency; assessment;

    Sammanfattning : An increasing amount of people use the English language, even those with other first languages. Therefore, there is an interest in investigating various aspects of the English language. The present study aims to investigate what it means to be orally proficient as a speaker of English. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Benrina Yatsu: A Quantitative Corpus Study of the Usage of the Japanese Nominaliser Yatsu Together with Adjectives

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Författare :Robin Weinemo; [2023]
    Nyckelord :Japanese; nominalisation; yatsu; written corpus; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : Yatsu has both been described as an ‘abusive’ version of the nominaliser mono, as well having properties not shared with mono. In this paper, the Japanese nominaliser yatsu was examined using the written corpus Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) created by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). LÄS MER