Essays about: "adjectives in speech"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words adjectives in speech.

  1. 1. Mood and Verbals in North Common Tulu

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Emil Magnus Mannby; [2024]
    Keywords : Tulu; Dravidian languages; mood; inflection; morphology; finiteness;

    Abstract : In the Dravidian language Tulu, spoken in the south of present day India, in the states of Karnataka and Kerala, several verb forms exist which have hitherto been poorly described in the scientific literature. A set of these code different modal distinctions, and are thus labeled moods. READ MORE

  3. 2. Cross-linguistic influence in the description of dimensional adjectives : Measuring the linguistic performance of l2 spanish in high-school students

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Sophie Charlotte Ugarte Bern; [2022]
    Keywords : Cross-linguistic influence; grammatical accuracy; placement of adjectives; semantic markers; dimensional adjectives; learner language; second language acquisition; experimental elicitation; performance analysis.;

    Abstract : In the present study, the linguistic performance of 11 Swedish high-school students of Spanish as second language (L2)/foreign language (FL) of 3 different levels, between 16-18 years old, has been measured through analysis of experimental elicited speech samples from a picture description task, designed to elicit placement of adjectives and dimensional adjectives in Spanish. The task provided 3 images with phrases in the source language and the participants were asked to translate it into the target language (TL). READ MORE

  4. 3. What may or may not be certain : A Study of the Translation of Hedging Devices from English to Swedish in a Non-Fiction Text

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Antonia Kjellström; [2019]
    Keywords : English to Swedish; hedges; hedging devices; non-fiction; translation;

    Abstract : Hedges, or hedging devices, are strategies that the writer or speaker can use in order to convey probability, impreciseness or vagueness. Hedges can appear in most parts of speech, for example as adjectives, adverbs or modal or lexical verbs. This study investigates the translation of hedging devices in a non-fiction text from English to Swedish. READ MORE

  5. 4. Classification of Fiction Genres : Text classification of fiction texts from Project Gutenberg

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för bibliotek, information, pedagogik och IT

    Author : Rolf Bucher; [2018]
    Keywords : text; classification; genre; machine; learning; supervised; Gutenberg; fiction;

    Abstract : Stylometric analysis in text classification is most often used in authorship attribution studies. This thesis used a machine learning algorithm, the Naive Bayes Classifier, in a text classification task comparing stylometric and lexical features. READ MORE

  6. 5. Thoughts don't have Colour, do they? : Finding Semantic Categories of Nouns and Adjectives in Text Through Automatic Language Processing

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Per Fallgren; [2017]
    Keywords : semantic representations; semantic categories; word vectors; adjective noun pair;

    Abstract : Not all combinations of nouns and adjectives are possible and some are clearly more fre- quent than other. With this in mind this study aims to construct semantic representations of the two types of parts-of-speech, based on how they occur with each other. READ MORE