Essays about: "premodifiers"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 8 essays containing the word premodifiers.
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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. A Comparative Study of Shell Nouns in English Academic Writing by Chinese and Swedish Authors
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)Abstract : This thesis aims to examine factors that influence the use of shell nouns in the writing production by Chinese and Swedish authors. Based on previous studies of shell nouns, this research establishes a theoretical model and a hypothesis is put forward: Though writing in the same genre, Chinese and Swedish authors have different ways of adopting shell nouns partially due to first language transfer. READ MORE
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4. The translation of cultural references and hyphenated premodifers in a travel guide about the Caribbean
University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)Abstract : This paper studies how cultural references and hyphenated premodifiers in an English travel guide about the Caribbean are translated into Swedish. The aim is to investigate what strategies that are used when translating cultural references, and why; as well as to see which grammatical structures that appear when translating hyphenated premodifiers from English to Swedish. READ MORE
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5. A Study of Adjective Use in NPs as an Indicator of Syntactic Development in Swedish L2 Learers' English
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudierAbstract : This is a corpus-based study on adjective use in eighty written compositions by Swedish learners of English from Grade 7 and Grade 9 in junior high school, and from Year 1 and Year 3 in senior high school. The aims of the study are to conduct an analysis of the use of attributive adjectives in noun phrases, and to investigate how attributive adjective use contributes to the syntactic complexity of noun phrases. READ MORE
