Essays about: "attributive adjectives"
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1. Adjectives expressing sadness in Swedish and English : A contrastive lexical analysis
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistikAbstract : This study examines how Swedish and English adjectives relating to the semantic domain of SADNESS are used and what some of their semantic and syntactic characteristics are. The primary objectives of this study are to determine whether the adjectives in question are used more often attributively or predicatively, whether they are used more frequently along with the semantic role of stimulus or experiencer and whether there are any syntactic, semantic or lexical disparities in how Swedish and English encode the domain of SADNESS. READ MORE
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2. Prudes versus sluts : An analysis of how attitudes are expressed through colloquial terminology
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This paper performs a corpus-based critical discourse analysis on the terms“vamp”, “slut”, “prude” and “spinster” and how they are used in context fromthe 1920s to the 2000s. They were categorized according to what attitudeswere connected to them, positive, neutral and negative. READ MORE
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3. Analysis of Japanese complex particles in L2 learners' compositions
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : While the research on so-called complex particles – or compound case particles – has flourished in the latest decades, there is no consensus regarding their classification and definition, and thus there is still need to further explore this field. The current research contributes to this by investigating the meaning and usage of five prominent complex particles derived from the dative case particle ”ni”, namely ”ni tsuite”, ”ni kanshite”, ”ni taishite”, ”ni totte” and ”ni yotte” in the Learner's Language Corpus of Japanese, consisting of compositions made by Japanese learners. READ MORE
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4. 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 utbildningsstudierAbstract : 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
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5. Tudor and Stuart England and the Significance of Adjectives : A Corpus Analysis of Adjectival Modification, Gender Perspectives and Mutual Information Regarding Titles of Social Rank Used in Tudor and Stuart England
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : The aim of the present study has been to investigate how titles of social rank used in Tudor and Stuart England are modified by attributive adjectives in pre-adjacent position and the implications that become possible to observe. Using the Corpus of Early English Correspondence Sampler (CEECS) the present work set out to examine adjectival modification, gender perspectives and MI (Mutual Information) scores in order to gain a deeper understanding of how and why titles were modified in certain ways. READ MORE
