Essays about: "preposition"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 23 essays containing the word preposition.

  1. 16. A Corpus Based Study in Morpheme Acquisition Order of Young Learners of English : A comparison of Swedish students in grade 6 and grade 7

    University essay from Institutionen för pedagogik, didaktik och utbildningsstudier

    Author : Su Yin Khor; [2013]
    Keywords : morpheme acquisition order; natural order hypothesis; second language acquisition; Swedish learners; first language influence and transfer; corpus; morphological congruency;

    Abstract : This study investigated the morpheme acquisition order of Swedish students in grades 6 and 7, utilizing corpus texts drawn from the Uppsala Learner English Corpus (ULEC). It is an extension of Khor (2012) that focused on students in grades 9 and 12. READ MORE

  3. 17. Figuring out phrasal verbs : An analysis of student use and fluency in Swedish upper secondary schools

    University essay from Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Heidi Jacobsen; [2013]
    Keywords : phrasal verbs; EFL; teacher assessment;

    Abstract : Phrasal verbs are said to be one of the greatest indicators of linguistic competence for speakers of English as a foreign language. A phrasal verb consists of a verb and a preposition, a verb and an adverb, or a verb and an adverb as well as a preposition. READ MORE

  4. 18. Space and time in Mmen

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Signe Nilsson; [2013]
    Keywords : semantics; temporal relations; prepositions; spatial relations; bantu languages; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis provides an analysis of the linguistic expression of spatial and temporal relations in Mmen, a Niger-Congo language spoken in Bafumen, in the North West Region of Cameroon. Linguistic means of expressing spatial relations are surveyed in usage and in grammatical structure, and categorized according to the patterns found. READ MORE

  5. 19. Financial Development, Institutions and Economic Growth : An Empirical Evidence

    University essay from IHH, Nationalekonomi

    Author : Gleba Boca; [2011]
    Keywords : Financial development; Economic Growth; Institutions; Protection of property rights;

    Abstract : What is the impact of financial development on economic growth and how institutional quality affects the role of financial development on economic growth? This thesis attempts to answer to these questions using a fixed effects estimation and two-step GMM estimator on a panel dataset of 93 countries from 2000-2007. The preposition is that financial sector development increases the availability of extra finance thereby increasing firms investment, which is essential for economic growth. READ MORE

  6. 20. Positiva och negativa prepositioner : En studie av prepositionsanvändningen bland förskolebarn som lär sig svenska som ett andraspråk

    University essay from Institutionen för nordiska språk

    Author : Peter Lundkvist; [2008]
    Keywords : Svenska som andraspråk;

    Abstract : Denna studie är en undersökning av hur förskolebarn som lär sig svenska som ett andraspråk tillägnar sig svenska prepositioner. Prepositioner tillhör inte de ord man lär sig först; det går ofta bra att göra sig förstådd utan att använda prepositioner. READ MORE