Essays about: "american National Corpus"

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1. 1. A comparison study of the JBXDMY construction inAmerican and British English

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Sebastian Sandström; [2023]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : The "Just Because X Doesn't Mean Y" (JBXDMY) construction initially emerged in the1850s as a spoken expression, typically employed to convey a negative implication to theinterlocutor. This syntactic structure is prevalent in both British and American English, withthe most frequently observed variant in the British corpora being "Just Because X doesn'tmean Y," and in the American corpora, "X That doesn't mean Y. READ MORE

3. 2. International Anarchy & the American Leviathan : A study in the moral and empirical applications of Hobbes’ concept of anarchy to American Foreign policy

   University essay from Högskolan Väst/Avd för juridik, ekonomi, statistik och politik

   Author : Nathalie Martinsdotter; Elias Johansson; [2019]
   Keywords : Thomas Hobbes; American Foreign Policy; Political Thought; International Relations; Realism; National Security Strategy; International Morality; Anarchy; Donald Trump; Barack Obama;

   Abstract : The current president of the United States, Donald Trump, has been identified as the reason for a large shift in American foreign policy towards a doctrine closer to that of political realism. This claim has led us to examine if this transformation could be detected and described if we analyzed and compared Trump’s foreign policy doctrine with his predecessor, Barack Obama, through the lens Thomas Hobbes, whose ideas are at the core of the three modern schools of political realism. READ MORE

4. 3. Ambiguity in Peace Agreements : Cognitive and Computational Models for Processing Syntactic Ambiguity in Israeli-Palestinian Peace Agreements in English

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

   Author : Parastoo Asghari; [2018]
   Keywords : complex noun phrases; syntactic ambiguity; language processing; cognition; corpus linguistics; computational model;

   Abstract : Systems that attempt to process texts and acquire information from texts in English need to be particularly alert to noun phrases since they carry so much information. Systems, whether comprehensional or computational, may face particular difficulties when dealing with complex noun phrases. READ MORE

5. 4. The Use of Americanisms in British English, with a Specific Focus on Gotten: A Corpus Study

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Jennifer Melckersson; [2018]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : This essay aims to, with the support of an extensive corpus study, investigate the use of gotten in British English. Gotten is an alternative past participle of get which occurs mainly in American English, but is British in origin. READ MORE

6. 5. Language Change in "The Simpsons"?

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Matilda Hemmingsson; [2012-06-26]
   Keywords : The Simpsons; language change;

   Abstract : Aim: The aim of this study is to examine the possibility of distinguishing a language change in one of our times’ most popular sitcoms, The Simpsons, over a period of twenty years, with a specific focus on the family members, Homer, Bart, Marge and Lisa. Theory: A real-time study of the sitcom The Simpsons will show a language change, and the twenty years of the show’s existence will be adequate time to study the potential change. READ MORE