Essays about: "dialect classification"
Found 3 essays containing the words dialect classification.
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1. Conditional Constructions in Damascus Arabic : Form and meaning
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : This paper treats the relationship between form and meaning in conditional constructions in Damascus Arabic (DA). More specifically, it treats two, main formal categories of DA conditional constructions: the conditional marker and the verb morphology and, further, how these are related to various degrees of conditional hypotheticality. READ MORE
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2. Translationese and Swedish-English Statistical Machine Translation
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : This thesis investigates how well machine learned classifiers can identify translated text, and the effect translationese may have in Statistical Machine Translation -- all in a Swedish-to-English, and reverse, context. Translationese is a term used to describe the dialect of a target language that is produced when a source text is translated. READ MORE
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3. Northern Aslian Linguistic Prehistory: Tracing the Effects of Contact
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskapAbstract : This study focuses on the genealogical and contact-based connections among the Northern Aslian varieties, which form one of three subgroups of the Aslian subbranch of the Austroasiatic stock, spoken in Peninsular Malaysia and southern Thailand. The complex patterns of contact that exist among the speakers of the closely related Northern Aslian varieties coupled with a scarcity of data and a lack of written history give rise to difficulties in the representation of the historical relationships among these varieties using traditional models of language classification. READ MORE
