Essays about: "present-day American English"

Found 5 essays containing the words present-day American English.

1. 1. Thou Shalt Not Split...? : A Corpus-Based Study on Split Infinitives in American English

   University essay from Högskolan i Jönköping/Högskolan för lärande och kommunikation

   Author : Simon Johansson; [2015]
   Keywords : split infinitive; corpus linguistics; COHA; COCA; American English;

   Abstract : This essay aims to shed light on the prevalence of the to + adverb + verb and to not + verb split infinitives in American English, both in a historical perspective and in present day usage, and how it varies in different contexts where different levels of formality are expected. Although students are taught to avoid splitting constructions, numerous grammarians and linguists question this prescriptive viewpoint. READ MORE

3. 2. Non-Standard "-ed" Forms of Selected Irreguslar Verbs: A Corpus-based Study of Present-day American English

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Eric Wikström; [2013-06-28]
   Keywords : irregular verbs; -ed forms; non-standard usage; present-day American English; past participle; preterit; COCA Corpus of Contemporary American English ; standardization; variation; AAVE African America Vernacular English ; SWVE Southern White Vernacular English ;

   Abstract : This is a corpus-based study which aims to survey the parallel use of non-standard preterit and past participle "-ed" forms in a group of irregular verbs (namely "blow", "grow", "know", and "throw") in Present-day American English and to determine in what media, style registers, and text types such non-standard verb forms occur. The data for this analysis is provided by the Corpus of Contemporary American English (COCA) which comprises texts from the period of 1990 - 2010. READ MORE

4. 3. DESIRE Conceptualizations and Culture in the Scottish Enlightenment

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

   Author : Hugo Nordland; [2010]
   Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : An historical approach to language is crucial to both our understanding of language development and of how emotions are conceptualized, not only as they are in our present day but also how they have been conceptualized throughout time and what the underlying mechanisms are that shape these conceptualizations. The main aim of the present study will be to examine how important philosophers of the Scottish enlightenment conceptualized DESIRE metaphorically. READ MORE

5. 4. The use of arise and rise in present-day British & American English : A corpus based analysis of two verbs

   University essay from Institutionen för humaniora

   Author : Alexander Lakaw; [2007]
   Keywords : corpus study; collocations; semantic prosody; semantic specialisation; synonymy; absolute synonyms; near-synonyms; language change;

   Abstract : This corpus based investigation deals with the present-day usage of and the semantic relation between the two verbs rise and arise. Concordance lines containing various forms of the two verbs in question have been taken from six different (sub)corpora and were examined in view of their collocational and semantic characteristics. READ MORE

6. 5. Exploration of relationships from texts using self-organizing maps

   University essay from Institutionen för teknik och byggd miljö

   Author : Weiping Lu; [2007]
   Keywords : ;

   Abstract : This thesis explored and visualized the relationships of documents data, based on the technique of self-organizing maps (SOM), a subtype of artificial neural network for visualizing high-dimensional data in low-dimensional views. The source data for this thesis are the full Extensible Markup Language (XML) texts of A Standard Corpus of Present Day Edited American English. READ MORE