Sökning: "attributive adjective"

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  1. 1. Processability and proficiency: Is there a causal relationship?

    Kandidat-uppsats,

    Författare :Antonio Domenico Saracino; [2019]
    Nyckelord :;

    Sammanfattning : The objective of this paper is to investigate if the relationship between the Processability Theory, a model for second language acquisition, and proficiency, is causal. The focus will be on attributive and predicative adjectival agreement. LÄS MER

  3. 2. ANALYSIS OF PRENOMINAL MODIFICATION IN SARADA KINENBI

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

    Författare :Máté Sall Vesselényi; [2015-10-29]
    Nyckelord :japanska; modification; relative clause; tanka; Japanese;

    Sammanfattning : Previous research on prenominal modification in tanka is scarce and has only taken partial aspects into consideration, namely, pronouns as modified elements and verbs as modifying elements, using only classical waka from the Man’yōshū as material. In light of this, the present study included all parts of speech that appear either as modifying elements or modified elements and analyzed prenominal modification in the renowned modern tanka collection Sarada Kinenbi. LÄS MER

  4. 3. A Study of Adjective Use in NPs as an Indicator of Syntactic Development in Swedish L2 Learers' English

    Uppsats för yrkesexamina på avancerad nivå, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

    Författare :Haiying Gan; [2015]
    Nyckelord :syntactic development; noun premodification; attributive adjective; Swedish learners of English;

    Sammanfattning : This is a corpus-based study on adjective use in eighty written compositions by Swedish learners of English from Grade 7 and Grade 9 in junior high school, and from Year 1 and Year 3 in senior high school. The aims of the study are to conduct an analysis of the use of attributive adjectives in noun phrases, and to investigate how attributive adjective use contributes to the syntactic complexity of noun phrases. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Lexis, Discourse Prosodies and the Taking of Stance : A Corpus Study of the Meaning of ‘Self-proclaimed’

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Författare :Mikael Altemark; [2011]
    Nyckelord :self-proclaimed; corpus linguistics; pragmatics; semantics; extended lexical unit; discourse prosody; stance; intersubjectivity;

    Sammanfattning : This study is concerned with the description of the semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the attributive adjective self-proclaimed, employing corpus-linguistic methodology to explore its meaning from user-based data. The initial query provided the material from which a lexical pro-file of the target word was constructed, systematically describing collocational data, semantic preferences, semantic associations and discourse prosodies. LÄS MER

  7. 5. A corpus-based study on the polysemy of the attributive adjective fucking

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Rasmus Tarland; [2010]
    Nyckelord :Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : While discussing the possibility of investigating the polysemy of an English profanity as the topic for this essay, Dylan Glynn, who is supervising this work, pointed to an (albeit old) edition of an Oxford English Dictionary resting on a shelf in his office in order to look up the definition[s] of the lexeme fuck. However, the entry was nowhere to be found, and this only added to the interest of the topic. LÄS MER