Essays about: "inflectional"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word inflectional.
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1. On indirectivity in Azeri : A discourse-analytical study of the functions of {-mỊš}/{-(y)ỊB-DỊ(r)} and {Ị-mỊš} in South Azeri varieties
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Johanson (2003: 274) refers to the grammatical categories of evidentiality found in Turkiclanguages as indirectivity, characterised “by reference to its reception by a conscious subject”.The East Old Turkic post-terminal verbal item in -miš and copula particle in ermiš are theoldest known markers of indirectivity in Turkic and have been morphologically preserved inthe West Oghuz languages. READ MORE
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2. Cactuses or Cacti? : A corpus-based study on the use of Latin nominal inflection in American English
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionenAbstract : As a result of language contact and influence, the English language contains a significant amount of lexical items borrowed from other languages. Whilst the borrowing of inflectional morphology is not very common, English does use several Latin plurals in their original form. READ MORE
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3. English Word Formation Processes: The use of affixations and implications for second language learning : A Case Study of Swedish Secondary Schools Grades 7-9
University essay from Högskolan i Gävle/Avdelningen för humanioraAbstract : This work explains the types of affixation errors second language learners make when learning English word formation processes, especially derivational and inflectional affixations. The data for the study were collected as primary sources from two secondary schools in Sweden. READ MORE
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4. Automatic Error Detection and Correction in Neural Machine Translation : A comparative study of Swedish to English and Greek to English
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologiAbstract : Automatic detection and automatic correction of machine translation output are important steps to ensure an optimal quality of the final output. In this work, we compared the output of neural machine translation of two different language pairs, Swedish to English and Greek to English. READ MORE
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5. Should it move or should it stay? How speakers of two Basque dialects organize meaningful elements in transitive clauses
University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskapAbstract : This thesis investigates word order patterns in spoken Basque for two dialects, Navarrese-Lapurdian and Gipuzkoan. The data for the analysis was elicited with stimuli pictures in an experiment in dialogue form. The 26 participants were from Hazparne (Lapurdi), Donostia, and Andoain (both Gipuzkoa). READ MORE