Essays about: "Bible corpus"

Found 5 essays containing the words Bible corpus.

  1. 1. COMPARATIVE STUDY OF HEBRAISMS IN THE SHORT RECENSION OF ENOCH 2

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Inna Ohlsson; [2023-06-26]
    Keywords : Fornkyrkoslaviska; Enoch; Hebraism; apocalyptic; Old Church Slavonic;

    Abstract : It has long been known that Enoch 2, short recension, contains plenty of Hebraisms and many scholars commented on them. The present work is the first systematic study of Hebraisms based on two methods: comparative, where Enoch 2 is compared to Zerubbabel, and corpus linguistical, where AntConc software is used to study the words, which can give rise to a Hebraism. READ MORE

  3. 2. How negation influences word order in languages : Automatic classification of word order preference in positive and negative transitive clauses

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Chen Lyu; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : In this work, we explore the possibility of using word alignment in parallel corpus to project language annotations such as Part-of-Speech tags and dependency relation from high-resource languages to low-resource languages. We use a parallel corpus of Bible translations, including 1,444 translations in 986 languages, and a well-developed parser is used to annotate source languages (English, French, German, and Czech). READ MORE

  4. 3. 'In the moment' : A cross-linguistic exploration of the lexical concept [MOMENT]

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Arthur Mannheimer; [2023]
    Keywords : moment; lexical typology; lexical concept; cognitive model; semantic shift; now;

    Abstract : Lexical typological studies examine how various languages express similar concepts. Previous research has discussed how the concept of moment is encoded lexically in English, Ancient Greek, and Ancient Egyptian. However, there are no cross-linguistic studies to date that collect data on the lexical expressions associated with the concept of moment. READ MORE

  5. 4. The encoding of bad and evil : A cross-linguistic study using a parallel Bible corpus

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Nina Knobloch; [2021]
    Keywords : bad; evil; negative adjectives; lexical typology; semantic maps; negation; broad evil; narrow evil; dålig; ond; negativa adjektiv; lexikal typologi; semantiska kartor; negation; broad evil; narrow evil;

    Abstract : This study investigates the cross-linguistic encoding of bad and evil expressions. Using parallel data from the Bible corpus consisting of translations of the New Testament into 30 languages, probabilistic semantic maps have been created using Multi-Dimensional scaling. READ MORE

  6. 5. Finding case through personal names in parallel texts

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Gustav Finnveden; [2019]
    Keywords : Case; Personal names; Parallel texts; Information entropy; Bible corpus; Indirect measurement; Kasus; Personnamn; Parallella texter; Informationsentropi; Bibelkorpus; Indirekta mått;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to evaluate whether the ‘richness’ of the marking on personal names is an adequate indirect measure of a language’s case usage. The method uses parallel texts to identify, and group by lemma, names in over a thousand languages. READ MORE