Essays about: "attributive adjective"

Found 5 essays containing the words attributive adjective.

1. 1. ANALYSIS OF PRENOMINAL MODIFICATION IN SARADA KINENBI

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Máté Sall Vesselényi; [2015-10-29]
   Keywords : japanska; modification; relative clause; tanka; Japanese;

   Abstract : Previous research on prenominal modification in tanka is scarce and has only taken partial aspects into consideration, namely, pronouns as modified elements and verbs as modifying elements, using only classical waka from the Man’yōshū as material. In light of this, the present study included all parts of speech that appear either as modifying elements or modified elements and analyzed prenominal modification in the renowned modern tanka collection Sarada Kinenbi. READ MORE

3. 2. A Study of Adjective Use in NPs as an Indicator of Syntactic Development in Swedish L2 Learers' English

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

   Author : Haiying Gan; [2015]
   Keywords : syntactic development; noun premodification; attributive adjective; Swedish learners of English;

   Abstract : This is a corpus-based study on adjective use in eighty written compositions by Swedish learners of English from Grade 7 and Grade 9 in junior high school, and from Year 1 and Year 3 in senior high school. The aims of the study are to conduct an analysis of the use of attributive adjectives in noun phrases, and to investigate how attributive adjective use contributes to the syntactic complexity of noun phrases. READ MORE

4. 3. Lexis, Discourse Prosodies and the Taking of Stance : A Corpus Study of the Meaning of ‘Self-proclaimed’

   University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

   Author : Mikael Altemark; [2011]
   Keywords : self-proclaimed; corpus linguistics; pragmatics; semantics; extended lexical unit; discourse prosody; stance; intersubjectivity;

   Abstract : This study is concerned with the description of the semantic and pragmatic characteristics of the attributive adjective self-proclaimed, employing corpus-linguistic methodology to explore its meaning from user-based data. The initial query provided the material from which a lexical pro-file of the target word was constructed, systematically describing collocational data, semantic preferences, semantic associations and discourse prosodies. READ MORE

5. 4. A corpus-based study on the polysemy of the attributive adjective fucking

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Rasmus Tarland; [2010]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : While discussing the possibility of investigating the polysemy of an English profanity as the topic for this essay, Dylan Glynn, who is supervising this work, pointed to an (albeit old) edition of an Oxford English Dictionary resting on a shelf in his office in order to look up the definition[s] of the lexeme fuck. However, the entry was nowhere to be found, and this only added to the interest of the topic. READ MORE

6. 5. A Tourist Translation : Passives, adjectives, terminology and cultural aspects in translation from English to Swedish in the tourist brochure Dover Castle

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Madeleine Lejervall; [2006]
   Keywords : passives; attributive adjectives; terminology; cultural aspects; translation strategies;

   Abstract : This study deals with difficulties of different nature encountered in the process of translating a tourist booklet on Dover Castle, published by English Heritage. The study focuses on grammatical aspects as the translation of the passive and attributive adjectives, and lexical aspects as the translation of terminology and cultural words and expressions. READ MORE