Sökning: "adjectival modification"

Hittade 2 uppsatser innehållade orden adjectival modification.

1. 1. On the Translation of Adjectival Pre-Modifiers : A Study of English-Swedish Translation Shifts

   Magister-uppsats, Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

   Författare :Roberto Draganic; [2018]
   Nyckelord :translation studies; Swedish; English; adjectives; pre-modification; translation shift; category shift;

   Sammanfattning : This study examined the translation of adjectival pre-modifiers (i.e. pre-modifying adjectives and pre-modifying participles) from English into Swedish. LÄS MER

3. 2. Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Niclas Vikström; [2015]
   Nyckelord :Historical sociolinguistics; corpus linguistics; variationist theory; Renaissance English; Late Middle and Early Modern English; titles of social rank; Tudor and Stuart England; the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler CEECS ; adjectival modification; semantic domains; collocations; type token ratios; gender; mutual information.;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the present work set out to examine adjectival modification, gender perspectives and MI (Mutual Information) scores in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why titles were modified in certain ways. LÄS MER