Essays about: "Tense and aspect"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 21 essays containing the words Tense and aspect.

  1. 6. Tense and Aspect in the English Language : A study about newly arrived students with Arabic as their mother tongue

    University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Engelska

    Author : Alexandra Sabra; [2020]
    Keywords : Arabic; English; structure; tense; grammar; interference; transfer;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine how newly arrived Arabic speaking students use tense and aspect in the English language and to find out whether their native language affects their learning. The study is based on both qualitative and quantitative methods where the focus is on different texts written by students. READ MORE

  3. 7. Tense and aspect errors in junior high school students’ writing : A study of risk taking

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Lärarutbildningen

    Author : Linn Essving; [2019]
    Keywords : Error Analysis; Second Language Acquisition; Risk taking; Syntactic complexity; Tense and aspect;

    Abstract : English is taught in Swedish schools as a foreign language. The students are at different levels, and most of them try to achieve a higher proficiency level. While the extent to which students are successful at learning a language depends on many different factors. READ MORE

  4. 8. Phasal Polarity in Bantu Languages : A typological study

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Althea Löfgren; [2019]
    Keywords : aspect; bantu; phasal polarity; tense;

    Abstract : This study explores a category of expressions akin to not yet, already, still and no longer, called PhasalPolarity (PhP) expressions and builds on the work of Löfgren (2018). PhP expressions encode the domainsof phasal values, polarity and speaker expectations and have previously been described in Europeanlanguages (van der Auwera: 1998) and in a small, genealogically diverse sample (van Baar: 1997). READ MORE

  5. 9. Phasal Polarity Systems in East Bantu

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Althea Löfgren; [2018]
    Keywords : aspect; Bantu languages; phasal polarity; tense;

    Abstract : This study explores a category of expressions akin to not yet, already, still and no longer, called Phasal Polarity (PhP) expressions. They encode the domains of phasal values, polarity and speaker expectations and have previously been described in European languages (van der Auwera 1998) and in a small, genealogically diverse sample (van Baar 1997). READ MORE

  6. 10. The Past Tenses of Early Middle Japanese

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Japanska

    Author : Arthur Hård; [2018]
    Keywords : Early Middle Japanese; evidentiality; aspect; corpus linguistics;

    Abstract : Early Middle Japanese is one of the oldest attested stages of Japanese. Its rich legacy consists of several literary works from the Heian era (7 th to 11 th centuries), some of which are still appreciated and widely read today. READ MORE