Essays about: "inflectional"
Showing result 6 - 8 of 8 essays containing the word inflectional.
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6. Language Change. From Ælfric to New American Standard Bible: A Morphological Analysis of Five Translations of Genesis 3:1-15 and Matthew 3:1-15
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Nobody can argue that language does not undergo changes. The only languages that are not prone to linguistic changes are dead languages. The scope of this survey is to emphasize the various changes in morphology found in the primary material, i.e. READ MORE
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7. The paradigm of -haru
University essay from Lunds universitet/JapanskaAbstract : The focus of this paper is the paradigm of the Kyoto realization of the dialectal honorific suffix -haru found in the dialects spoken in the Kansai area of western Japan. A number of hypothetical forms are examined and tested against the intuitions of a native Japanese speaker familiar with the dialects of the Kansai area, including the Kyoto dialect, and the morphological possibilities and constraints of the suffix are then elaborated upon through further examination of the tested forms deemed to be nonexistent. READ MORE
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8. Adjective Comparison in Contemporary British English : A Corpus Study of More than One Hundred Adjectives
University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakultetenAbstract : There are mainly two ways of comparing adjectives in English: the analytic and the synthetic. The analytic way is to use more and most (for example difficult, more difficult, most difficult). The synthetic, or inflectional, way is to add the endings –er and –est (for instance fast, faster, fastest). READ MORE
