Essays about: "interrogative"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 essays containing the word interrogative.

  1. 1. Mood and Verbals in North Common Tulu

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Emil Magnus Mannby; [2024]
    Keywords : Tulu; Dravidian languages; mood; inflection; morphology; finiteness;

    Abstract : In the Dravidian language Tulu, spoken in the south of present day India, in the states of Karnataka and Kerala, several verb forms exist which have hitherto been poorly described in the scientific literature. A set of these code different modal distinctions, and are thus labeled moods. READ MORE

  3. 2. An Experimental Evaluation of Grounding Strategies for Conversational Agents

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet / Institutionen för filosofi, lingvistik och vetenskapsteori

    Author : Yiqian Zou; [2020-09-11]
    Keywords : Grounding strategy; Grounding; Dialogue system;

    Abstract : With the continuous development of technology, dialogue system’s technology penetrates into human’s life. Grounding also becomes more and more important for dialogue systems. It is important to choose a suitable grounding strategy in a conversational agent. READ MORE

  4. 3. Persuasion in social media : A study of Instagram influencers' usage of persuasive speech acts

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Alissa de Aquino Carlsson; [2018]
    Keywords : persuasive speech acts; John Searle; online marketing; Instagram influencers;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate how different fitness Instagram influencers use persuasive speech acts in their marketing posts. Another aim is to look at the similarities and differences between the influencers’ use of linguistic strategies and speech acts. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Perception of Intonation in Japanese Sentence Types by Swedish Speakers : Wh-Questions, Yes/No-Questions and Declaratives

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Jenny Lam; [2017]
    Keywords : Wh-questions; yes no-questions; declaratives; sentence-final intonation; Swedish; Japanese; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study is concerned with the topic of sentence-final intonation in wh-questions, yes/no- questions and declaratives. The aim of the study is to investigate whether native speakers of Swedish can recognize these sentence types in standard Japanese by listening to the intonation alone. READ MORE

  6. 5. She seldoms to what? An investigation into adverbial verbs and interrogative verbs in verb-initial languages

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Victor Bogren Svensson; [2017]
    Keywords : Adverbial verbs; interrogative verbs; verb-initial languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Adverbial verbs and interrogative verbs are two relatively rare and underexplored linguistic phenomena that are investigated in this typological study. Adverbial verbs are verbal constituents that possess the morphosyntactic properties of verbs but that encode manner and temporal information, instead of referring to states or events as verbs prototypically do. READ MORE