Essays about: "polysemous verb"

Found 2 essays containing the words polysemous verb.

  1. 1. Français Tirailleur : - A Corpus Study

    University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Hedvig Skirgård; [2013]
    Keywords : francais; tirailleur; pidgin; west africa; senegal; tirailleur senegalais; lucie cousturier; mangin;

    Abstract : Français Tirailleur (FT) är ett pidginspråk som talades av västafrikanska soldateroch deras vita officerare i den franska kolonialarmen cirka 1857-1954. Den häruppsatser beskriver denna språkvatietet utifrån ett korpus som består av de dokumenteradeyttranden som hittills hittats. READ MORE

  3. 2. Five English Verbs : A Comparison between Dictionary meanings and Meanings in Corpus collocations

    University essay from Sektionen för humaniora (HUM)

    Author : Susanne Sörensen; [2006]
    Keywords : word convention; verbum; utterance; polysemy; polysemous verb; lexical item; prototypical semantics; computational linguistics; monosemous units of meaning; principle of lexical contrast; valency pattern; selectional restrictions; collocational string; collocational profile; disambiguation;

    Abstract : In Norstedts Comprehensive English-Swedish Dictionary (2000) it is said that the numbered list of senses under each headword is frequency ordered. Thus, the aim of this study is to see whether this frequency order of senses agrees with the frequencies appearing in the British National Corpus (BNC). Five English, polysemous verbs were studied. READ MORE