Essays about: "Lexical exchange"

Found 4 essays containing the words Lexical exchange.

  1. 1. Relevant Dutch Lexical Influence in Contemporary Modern Japanese

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för japanska och kinesiska; Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Willem Koen; [2024]
    Keywords : Japanese Language; Dutch-Japanese; Dutch Lexical influence; Loanwords; Lexical exchange; Lexical influence; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : During the Edo Period of Japanese history, many loanwords entered the Japanese language through communication with the Dutch. Now, 164 years after the last significant linguistic exchange took place between the Dutch and the Japanese, it is interesting to see what lexical influence still exists in contemporary modern Japanese and which loanwords have fallen out of use. READ MORE

  3. 2. Are Russian loanwords more permanent than the Sino-Russian treaties? : A study of the integration and use of Russian lexical borrowings in Modern Standard Chinese with a historical perspective on language contact

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Katja Pomortseva; [2022]
    Keywords : Chinese; Russian; loanwords; language contact; word frequency; lexical borrowing; corpus linguistics;

    Abstract : China and Russia began their shared history in the 17th century and have since had stable and unstable language contact which has had an effect on the Russian-Chinese linguistic exchange. This study explores the integration and use of Russian loanwords in Modern Standard Chinese by using two quantitative methods. READ MORE

  4. 3. Exploring Construction of a Company Domain-Specific Knowledge Graph from Financial Texts Using Hybrid Information Extraction

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Chun-Heng Jen; [2021]
    Keywords : Natural Language Processing; Information Extraction; Named Entity Recognition; Relation Extraction; Knowledge Graph; Naturlig språkbehandling; Informationsextraktion; Namngiven Entitetsigenkänning; Relationsextraktion; Kunskapsgraf;

    Abstract : Companies do not exist in isolation. They are embedded in structural relationships with each other. Mapping a given company’s relationships with other companies in terms of competitors, subsidiaries, suppliers, and customers are key to understanding a company’s major risk factors and opportunities. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Neural Representations of Function Words : Neurolinguistic Beliefs Reconsidered in the Light of Grammaticalisation Theory

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Sabine Gosselke; [2011]
    Keywords : grammaticalisation; neurolinguistics; function words; processing; motor cortex; movement priming; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : It has in recent years been shown that some linguistic items, in particular lexical and abstracted movement verbs, activate the motor cortex in the human brain while being processed. The present study sets out to investigate how far this activation is retained for grammaticalised motion verbs which have shed their lexical content in exchange for grammatical functionality. READ MORE