Essays about: "semantics linguistics"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 essays containing the words semantics linguistics.

  1. 1. Making the Old New Again : A Corpus Analysis of Semantic Change in Contemporary American English Slang

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Matthew Gallaher; [2023]
    Keywords : semantics; semantic change; corpus studies; corpus linguistics; slang; collocates; context analysis;

    Abstract : This study used a combination of historical and contemporary corpora to investigate semantic change within the contemporary American English slang words swag, flex, and swole. This study involved two parts. READ MORE

  3. 2. Generating Wikipedia Articles with Grammatical Framework : A Case Study

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Keivan Matinzadeh; [2023]
    Keywords : Grammatical Framework; Computational Linguistics; Natural Language Generation; Computer Science; Grammatical Framework; Beräkningslingvistik; Textgenerering; Datavetenskap;

    Abstract : Natural language generation is a method used to produce understandable texts in human languages from data [1]. Grammatical Framework is a grammar formalism and a functional programming language using a nonstatistical approach to build natural language applications. READ MORE

  4. 3. “Harsh realities” and “tender gazes”: Do perceptual extensions function metaphorically or literally? : A corpus-based investigation of haptic adjectives and the “extent of the literal”

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Esme Richardson-Owen; [2022]
    Keywords : cognitive linguistics; cognitive semantics; perceptual metaphor; lexical metaphor; double-function adjectives;

    Abstract : This thesis investigates how perceptual adjectives are used to convey non-perceptual experience. The study is corpus-based, and the material consists of adjective-noun pairs in which the premodifying adjective is derived from the haptic modality. READ MORE

  5. 4. Bread, Wisdom, and Discipleship : Body Imagery in Luke 24 and Didache 9

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Niklas Rosenqvist; [2022]
    Keywords : Luke; Didache; Wisdom; Bread; Symbolism; Teaching; Eucharist; Body of Christ; Rhetoric; Narrative; Semantics; Relevance Theory; Christology; Ecclesiology;

    Abstract : The final chapter of Luke 24 exhibits a peculiar interest in the body of Jesus, which has historically led to theologians interpreting the passage as mainly concerned with christological matters. The phrase “body of Christ” can be understood in regard to the Eucharist meal, but also as employed by Paul to speak of the community of believers. READ MORE

  6. 5. A corpus-based study on the syntactic compound verb -kiru in Japanese : How the prepositional verb affects the semantic meaning in the verb-kiru construc

    University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och lärande

    Author : Axel Olsson; [2022]
    Keywords : Corpus study; linguistics; syntactic compound verb; semantics; auxiliary verbs;

    Abstract : This corpus-based study investigates the most frequent occurring prepositional verbs collocated with the Japanese syntactic compound verb -kiru and aims to establish how the prepositional verb affects the semantic meaning of the verb-kiru construct. The study uses sketchengine’s online database, “Japanese Web2011”, which contains around 8 billion Japanese terms collected from the internet from various online sources from 2011 and onwards. READ MORE