Essays about: "adverbial clauses"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words adverbial clauses.
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1. Adverbial ing-clauses and non-ing initial adverbials in medical translation
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This study investigates how non-ing initial adverbials and adverbial ing-clauses regardless of position are translated from English to Swedish in a medical text. It discusses what different kinds of positions and forms they take in the translation. READ MORE
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2. Adverbial clauses in translation : Translation of finite and non-finite (-ing, -ed and to-infinitive) adverbial clauses from English to Swedish in popular science
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This study investigates adverbial clauses in a translation of a popular science text from English to Swedish. The clauses investigated are both finite and non-finite adverbial clauses. The non-finite adverbial clauses are ing-clauses (present participle), ed-clauses (past participle) and to-infinitive clauses. READ MORE
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3. The long and the short of it : the translation of non-finite adverbial clauses and ly-adverbials
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This study investigates the translation of non-finite supplementive clauses and one-word adverbials with a suffix of -ly in an English non-fiction text of academic prose and its Swedish target text. The results show that the non-finite supplementive clauses often are translated into either a new main clause, a coordinated clause or a subordinate clause, where the latter in a majority of cases involves the use of explicitation. READ MORE
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4. From left to right and back again : The distribution of dependent clauses in the Hindukush
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : In complex clause constructions, the dependent clause can either precede or succeed the main clause. In a study on a selection of Indo-Aryan languages spoken on the Indian subcontinent (Hook 1987), a gradual transition between pre- and postposing languages was found, when moving from the southeast to the northwest in the area. READ MORE
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5. Acquiring distributional patterns in a closely related second language : Referent introduction, maintenance and prefield constituents in Dutch and Swedish
University essay from Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : This paper presents an explorative study of informal written narratives and oral picture descriptions in the native language as well as in the second language (L2) of six intermediate/advanced Dutch L1 learners of Swedish. Data from six Swedish L1 native controls, performing the same tasks as the learners, were also collected. READ MORE
