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  1. 1. Modal auxiliaries in English and Swedish A contrastive study of English can/could, may/might, and Swedish kunna and få

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

    Författare :Gustav Landälv; [2024-01-22]
    Nyckelord :Modal auxiliaries; English; epistemic modality; dynamic modality; deontic modality; can; could; may; might; kan; kunde; får; fick;

    Sammanfattning : The results suggest that English can and could, when expressing dynamic modality, are mainly translated as respectively kan and kunde. When omitted in the translation, the main verb with which they co occur is often a verb of perception, such as see, or a private verb involving a thought process, like understand or remember. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Reporting Trends in Sustainability and Climate Change Discourse : A corpus study about reporting verbs in global news

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

    Författare :Pontus Jaktlund Gunnarsson; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Corpus; Linguistics; Reporting Verbs; Media; Metonymy; Quantitative Analysis; Qualitative Analysis.;

    Sammanfattning : In news reports, journalists often make references to what spokespersons from public organizations have announced. While doing so, reporting verbs are not an uncommon occurrence (Li, Zhao & Lou, 2023: 2). LÄS MER

  4. 3. A quantitative study of Swedish high school L2 learners' receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Författare :Louise Frifelt; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Collocations; Multi-word units; Formulaic language; Second language acquisition; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : This paper investigates receptive knowledge of English lexical collocations among Swedish high school students. The study tests the claim that L2 (second language) learners of English have a low level of collocational competence and tend to recognise high-frequent collocations more than low-frequent since the former have been encountered more. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Mood and Verbals in North Common Tulu

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

    Författare :Emil Magnus Mannby; [2024]
    Nyckelord :Tulu; Dravidian languages; mood; inflection; morphology; finiteness;

    Sammanfattning : In the Dravidian language Tulu, spoken in the south of present day India, in the states of Karnataka and Kerala, several verb forms exist which have hitherto been poorly described in the scientific literature. A set of these code different modal distinctions, and are thus labeled moods. LÄS MER

  7. 5. VERBAL MORPHOLOGY IN THE GARISSA DIALECT OF SOMALI

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

    Författare :Abdirahman Mohamud; [2023-06-21]
    Nyckelord :Somali; Dialect; Garissa; Verb; Morphology;

    Sammanfattning : The essay investigates Garissa dialect, aiming to examine how far it is different from, or similar to, the standard Somali when it comes to verbal morphology. There are only very general studies of Somali dialects, and no study has ever focused specifically on this particular topic due to security reason among other things. LÄS MER