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  1. 1. Anticipated Events’ Impact on FX Options’ Implied Volatility

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Matematisk statistik

    Författare :Frej Håkansson; Björn Nilsson; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Volatility frown; implied volatility; jump model; anticipated event; SABR; FX Options; Mathematics and Statistics;

    Sammanfattning : Understanding events’ impact on financial instruments are crucial for the participants in the financial markets. Here we propose an approach to model an anticipated event’s impact on the prices of FX options, represented in implied volatility. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Variation of English passives used by Swedes : A corpus-based study of the usage of be-passives and get-passives

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Elias Gustafsson; [2014]
    Nyckelord :be-passive; blog; colloquialization; corpus; get-passive; grammaticalization; online newspaper; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the grammatical constructions of be-and get-passives and their usage by Swedes writing in English. The investigation is based on findings from four different corpora, two of which were compiled for the purpose of this study. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Exploring a recent grammatical change : A corpus-based investigation of the core modals will and shall and the semi-modal BE going to in newspapers and blogs written by Swedes

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Felix Fernebring; [2014]
    Nyckelord :Auxiliary verbs; BE going to; corpora; grammaticalization; modality; semi-modal; shall; variation; will;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this study is to investigate how the modal auxiliaries will and shall and the semi-modal BE going to are used to express futurity by individuals whose first language is Swedish. The study is corpus based, and the corpora used in this study consist of Swedish newspapers in English (SWENC) and material from blogs which are written in English by Swedes (BESC). LÄS MER

  5. 4. Collective nouns in English used in Sweden : A corpus-based study on number concord with collective nouns

    Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Författare :Petra Örlegård; [2014]
    Nyckelord :agreement; American English; British English; collective nouns; concord; corpus; news genre; plurality; singularity; Sweden;

    Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how Swedes writing in English construct number concord with collective nouns. This was done by studying three primary corpora: the Swedish English Newspaper Corpus (SWENC) and the press sections of Frown (American English) and F-LOB (British English). LÄS MER

  7. 5. The inflected genitive and the of-construction : A comparative corpus study of written East African, Indian, American and British English

    Magister-uppsats, Institutionen för humaniora

    Författare :Per Boberg; [2007]
    Nyckelord :corpus study; s-genitive; Indian English; British English; American English; inflected genitive; of-construction; semantics; ICE-EA; ICE-IND; Frown; FLOB; East African English;

    Sammanfattning : This quantitative corpus study discusses and compares the distribution of the inflected genitive (’s- or zero-genitive) with that of the of-construction in East African, Indian, American and British English using data collected from the ICE-EA, ICE-IND, Frown and FLOB corpora. This study also discusses the semantic categories of the inflected genitive in the varieties mentioned. LÄS MER