Essays about: "noun modification"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 essays containing the words noun modification.
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1. A study of the translation of premodifiers in an academic text
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : The past century has brought with it many changes to the English language. One of these is the drastic increase in complex nominal phrases, particularly premodifiers. This implies difficulties for translators, whose target languages may not have evolved in the same way, and who must then find other solutions. READ MORE
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2. Describing scent : On the translation of hyphenated premodifiers in a text about perfume
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This small-scale study examines the translation of a text about perfumes, focusing on how hyphenated premodifiers in the English source text were translated into Swedish. A quantitative analysis was carried out, where the various premodifying structures present in the source text were identified and categorized according to their individual constituents and frequencies of the various categories were calculated. READ MORE
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3. On the Translation of Adjectival Pre-Modifiers : A Study of English-Swedish Translation Shifts
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This study examined the translation of adjectival pre-modifiers (i.e. pre-modifying adjectives and pre-modifying participles) from English into Swedish. READ MORE
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4. ANALYSIS OF PRENOMINAL MODIFICATION IN SARADA KINENBI
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturerAbstract : Previous research on prenominal modification in tanka is scarce and has only taken partial aspects into consideration, namely, pronouns as modified elements and verbs as modifying elements, using only classical waka from the Man’yōshū as material. In light of this, the present study included all parts of speech that appear either as modifying elements or modified elements and analyzed prenominal modification in the renowned modern tanka collection Sarada Kinenbi. READ MORE
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5. Pre- and Postmodification in Noun Phrases : A comparison of monolingual, bilingual and multilingual male learners of English in Sweden
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudierAbstract : Students in Sweden are exposed to English education in the classroom from a very young age. This paper sets out to see whether bilingual or multilingual students perform better than monolingual students when acquiring English as a second or third language in Sweden. READ MORE
