Essays about: "adverbials"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 16 essays containing the word adverbials.

  1. 6. The long and the short of it : the translation of non-finite adverbial clauses and ly-adverbials

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Anna Görman; [2020]
    Keywords : Adverbial placement; explicitation; ly-adverbials; non-finite supplementive clauses; translation studies; transposition.;

    Abstract : This study investigates the translation of non-finite supplementive clauses and one-word adverbials with a suffix of -ly in an English non-fiction text of academic prose and its Swedish target text. The results show that the non-finite supplementive clauses often are translated into either a new main clause, a coordinated clause or a subordinate clause, where the latter in a majority of cases involves the use of explicitation. READ MORE

  3. 7. “When top coals are partially covered with ash, pour evenly over grill.” : A study of clause-initial adverbials and ellipsis in recipes

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Marie Megitt; [2019]
    Keywords : recipe; minilect; clause-initial adverbial; object ellipsis; determiner ellipsis; information structure; word order;

    Abstract : This paper focuses on two aspects of the recipe minilect: clause-initial adverbials and object and determiner ellipsis in the translation from English into Swedish. The aim of the study is to find general tendencies on how clause-initial adverbials are translated and how this affects the information structure. READ MORE

  4. 8. Translating between the lines : Decoding the syntactic condensation found in nominalisations and non-finite supplementive clauses

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Vivian Marshall; [2019]
    Keywords : congruence; explicitation; nominalisation; non-finite supplementive clauses; translation studies; transposition;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine how syntactically condensed structures are translated from English to Swedish in a non-fiction text. The analysis covers nominalisations and non-finite ing- and ed-clauses functioning as adverbials. READ MORE

  5. 9. The expression of stance in English L1 and L2 student writing : A corpus-based study of adverbial stance marking

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Engelska

    Author : Elisabete Ferreira; [2018]
    Keywords : academic writing; adverbials; L2 writing; stance; student writing;

    Abstract : The increasing interest in how stance is expressed specifically in academic writing in English has generated extensive research in the past decades. Focusing on the grammatical marking of stance, this comparative study investigates the use of stance adverbials by native (L1) and nonnative (L2) speakers of English in a corpus of student academic writing. READ MORE

  6. 10. It's about time - A study on Swedish transfer in temporal adverbials

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Lena Persbeck; [2017]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

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