Essays about: "nominalisation"

Found 5 essays containing the word nominalisation.

  1. 1. Benrina Yatsu: A Quantitative Corpus Study of the Usage of the Japanese Nominaliser Yatsu Together with Adjectives

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Robin Weinemo; [2023]
    Keywords : Japanese; nominalisation; yatsu; written corpus; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Yatsu has both been described as an ‘abusive’ version of the nominaliser mono, as well having properties not shared with mono. In this paper, the Japanese nominaliser yatsu was examined using the written corpus Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) created by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). READ MORE

  3. 2. Translating between the lines : Decoding the syntactic condensation found in nominalisations and non-finite supplementive clauses

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Vivian Marshall; [2019]
    Keywords : congruence; explicitation; nominalisation; non-finite supplementive clauses; translation studies; transposition;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to examine how syntactically condensed structures are translated from English to Swedish in a non-fiction text. The analysis covers nominalisations and non-finite ing- and ed-clauses functioning as adverbials. READ MORE

  4. 3. Shaping social and political identity : A critical discourse anlysis of the Bharatiya Janta Party

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Julia Lindahl; [2018]
    Keywords : Religion; Democracy; Identity; Hinduism; Hindutva; Pluralism; Caste System; Secularisation; Discourse Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis;

    Abstract : This research paper uses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to analyse texts produced by the political party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India. The analysis use Machin and Mayr’s (2012) concepts of Language and Identity and Nominalisation and Presupposition with the aim to understand how the BJP can influence the democratic society in India through discourse. READ MORE

  5. 4. An Escap-ee from French to English who will never return : A semantic and syntactic study of the -ee suffix in English

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

    Author : Yiu Tong Wong; [2017]
    Keywords : Contextual anchoring; derivational morpheme; ergativity; semantic roles; Kontextförankring; derivationsmorfem; ergativitet; semantiska roller;

    Abstract : The aim of this paper is to investigate the semantic and syntactic properties of the -­ee suffix in English. The -­ee suffix was borrowed from the French ‑­é suffix during the late Middle Ages, when French started to exert its linguistic influence on English. READ MORE

  6. 5. Word by word, phrase by phrase, sentence by sentence : A corpus-based study of the N1 by N1 construction

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

    Author : Per Boberg; [2009]
    Keywords : construction grammar; constructions; corpus linguistics; hyphenation; institutionalisation; lexicalisation; nominalisation; N1 P N1; N P N; premodifier;

    Abstract : The present paper examines the N1 by N1 construction using corpus linguistic methodology.The distribution of types of the construction that occur more than once either unhyphenated or hyphenated in any subcorpus of the British National Corpus accessed through the BrighamYoung University interface is examined. READ MORE