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1. 1. Exploring the Impact of Genre on Syntactic and Lexical Complexity in L2 Written English

   M1-uppsats, Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humaniora

   Författare :Caitlyn Taylor; [2024]
   Nyckelord :SLA; EFL; lexical complexity; syntactic complexity;

   Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the effect of genre on lexical and syntactic complexity. The corpus used for this study is made up of argumentative and narrative texts from the TRAWL (Tracking Written Learner Language) online corpus. The study analyses texts written by 22 Norwegian EFL learners, 10 in year 8 and 12 in year 9. LÄS MER

3. 2. Could this phrase be more constructional? : A Construction Grammar approach to the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase from the television show Friends

   Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Författare :Linn Nordlander; [2024]
   Nyckelord :construction grammar; information structure; CXBMY; SAI; constructions; rhetorical questions; parody;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the COULD X BE MORE Y phrase (CXBMY), well-known from the television show Friends, to argue for its qualification as a construction. By analyzing the phrase’s formal and functional features, as well as its frequency in the COCA corpus, this thesis compares the findings to the definition of constructions by Goldberg (2006, p. LÄS MER

4. 3. INSERTIONS IN POPULAR HISTORY TEXTS - A contrastive study on translation from English to Swedish and from Swedish to English

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

   Författare :Gustav Landälv; [2023-02-27]
   Nyckelord :English; Swedish; readability; insertion; clause; phrase; syntactic position; popular history;

   Sammanfattning : The purpose of this essay is to compare the frequency of insertions in an English popular history text and a Swedish popular history text. Moreover, the purpose is to compare the English text with its Swedish translation and the Swedish text with its English translation as regards the status of the insertions as clauses, phrases or (in the translation) something else than a clause or a phrase. LÄS MER

5. 4. It’s no laughing matter! The changing use of the semicolon and its application in various genres

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

   Författare :Magnus Boström; [2023]
   Nyckelord :punctuation; semicolon; linguistics; prescriptivism; grammar; syntax; prosody;

   Sammanfattning : The function of the semicolon has changed considerably since the 15th century, from primarily indicating the length of a pause, to providing syntactic information. According to prescriptive grammar, the semicolon is used to join independent clauses and to avoid complexity by separating items in a list. LÄS MER

7. 5. Processing Predicate NPs: An EEG study

   Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Författare :Ann Hermansson; [2023]
   Nyckelord :pronoun resolution; agreement attraction; nominal predicates; EEG; ERPs; P600; anterior negativity; Languages and Literatures;

   Sammanfattning : Theories on discourse accessibility and givenness suggest that nominal discourse entities vary with regard to how likely they are to act as antecedents to anaphoric expressions. Many factors are thought to affect the accessibility of a nominal entity in the mental model, including its morphosyntactic form and grammatical role. LÄS MER