Sökning: "historical linguistics"

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1. 1. Mala vida : Un estudio semántico

   Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för moderna språk

   Författare :Nilsson Frej; [2024]
   Nyckelord :phraseology; semantics; historical linguistics; philology; discourse analysis; philosophy of language; hermeneutics;

   Sammanfattning : This is a study of how the Spanish phrase mala vida is used in a historical corpus, the Corpus diacrónico de la academia Española, and an attempt to find out the meaning of this enigmatic phrase, based upon its patterns of use in this particular context. Furthermore, the study investigates mala vida as an attribute, in a particular serie of phrases that refer to people (hombres de mala vida, mujeres de mala vida, gente de mala vida), in the same corpus, in order to find out whom they refer to. LÄS MER

3. 2. ‘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

4. 3. IŻ SWÓJ JĘZYK MAJĄ! An exploration of the computational methods for identifying language variation in Polish

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

   Författare :Maria Irena Szawerna; [2023-06-19]
   Nyckelord :language variation; Polish; diachronic linguistics; part-of-speech tagging; lemmatization; corpus linguistics;

   Sammanfattning : Computational approaches to language variation continue to contribute in a relevant way to various fields, including Natural Language Processing (NLP) and linguistics. Being able to accommodate variation within natural language increases the robustness of NLP models and their usefulness in real-life applications; simultaneously, detecting and describing variation and trends that govern it is one of the main goals of sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, meaning that some of the advances in NLP can contribute to these fields as well. LÄS MER

5. 4. Evaluating and Fine-Tuning a Few-Shot Model for Transcription of Historical Ciphers

   Master-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

   Författare :Ingrid Eliasson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :historical ciphers; few-shot learning; automatic transcription;

   Sammanfattning : Thousands of historical ciphers, encrypted manuscripts, are stored in archives across Europe. Historical cryptology is the research field concerned with studying these manuscripts - combining the interest of humanistic fields with methods of cryptography and computational linguistics. LÄS MER

7. 5. Making the Old New Again : A Corpus Analysis of Semantic Change in Contemporary American English Slang

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Matthew Gallaher; [2023]
   Nyckelord :semantics; semantic change; corpus studies; corpus linguistics; slang; collocates; context analysis;

   Sammanfattning : This study used a combination of historical and contemporary corpora to investigate semantic change within the contemporary American English slang words swag, flex, and swole. This study involved two parts. LÄS MER