Essays about: "morphology in English"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 23 essays containing the words morphology in English.

  1. 6. "For the fifty-eleventh time" : Examining cross-linguistic properties of hyperbolic numerals and quasi-numeral expressions through parallel text extraction

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Amanda Kann; [2022]
    Keywords : hyperbole; hyperbolic quantification; numeral typology; parallel texts; quasi-numerals; hyperbol; hyperbolisk kvantifiering; kvasinumeriska uttryck; parallelltexter; räkneordstypologi;

    Abstract : In some languages, vague and exaggerated quantities can be represented using certain conventionalised numeral expressions with cross-linguistically varying values, such as Danish hundredesytten "117". Hyperbolic quantities can also be expressed using other quantifier expressions (such as English zillion) which, while they do not denote a specific numerical value, have both structural and functional similarities with exact numerals. READ MORE

  3. 7. Cactuses or Cacti? : A corpus-based study on the use of Latin nominal inflection in American English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Hanna Bengtsson; [2021]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : As a result of language contact and influence, the English language contains a significant amount of lexical items borrowed from other languages. Whilst the borrowing of inflectional morphology is not very common, English does use several Latin plurals in their original form. READ MORE

  4. 8. Contact-induced change and variation in Middle English morphology : A case study on get

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Åberg; [2021]
    Keywords : Language contact; Language change; Middle English; Old Norse; Cognitive linguistics; Old English.;

    Abstract : The present study explores the role of interlingual identification in contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English. The study focuses on the word get as it occurred throughout a selection of texts in the Middle English period. READ MORE

  5. 9. Sloppy, slab and slender: a comparative study of the phonaestheme sl- in English and Swedish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Christoffer Modig Forser; [2019]
    Keywords : phonaesthemes; ideophones; morphology; phonetics; lexical analysis; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The primary aim of this essay is to add new insight as to the productivity and universality of phonaesthemes in general, and the sl-phonaestheme in particular. The data presented in this essay is generated in two ways: lexical analyses and an experiment. READ MORE

  6. 10. An investigation of Swedish beauty vloggers’ use of code-switching between Swedish and English

    University essay from

    Author : Jenny Hultgren Korkis; [2019]
    Keywords : Code-switching; youths; vloggers; make-up tutorials;

    Abstract : Much research has been done in the area of code-switching; that is, changing from one language to another in the middle of the same utterance, especially in bilingual communities. Yet, there seems to be little research done on code-switching between English and Swedish among Swedish young adults. READ MORE