Essays about: "standard negation"

Showing result 6 - 9 of 9 essays containing the words standard negation.

  1. 6. Negation in Germanic languages : A micro-typological study on negation

    University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Carles Fuster Sansalvador; [2013]
    Keywords : Germanic; negation; word order; micro-typology; typology; Germanska språk; negation; ordföljd; typologi; mikrotypologi;

    Abstract : Traditionally, typological classifications have been done in a macro-typological perspective; that is,they have been based on balanced world-wide samples of languages, which often avoid includingclosely related languages, since these are supposed to act alike with respect to their typologicalfeatures and structures. However, attention has recently been drawn to the idea that even closelyrelated languages, as well as dialects within languages, may differ on their typological features. READ MORE

  3. 7. Negation in Romance languages : A micro-typological study on negation

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Camilla Lindblom; [2013]
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    Abstract : Languages that are genealogically or areally related often exhibit similar typological features due to their affinity. Large scale typological studies aiming to explain universal patterns and structural variation tend to exclude data from genealogical and areally related languages not to compromise the validity of the results. READ MORE

  4. 8. Negation in Japanese

    University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Joacim Nyberg; [2012]
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    Abstract : Negation has fascinated thinkers and scholars for some 2,500 years.However, within linguistics, it is only in the recent years that negation has been given the attention it deserves. Within language typology, the main subject of investigation has been the notion of standard negation. READ MORE

  5. 9. Using Coh-Metrix to Compare Cohesion Measures between the United States Senators John McCain and Barack Obama

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Annie Hultgren; [2009]
    Keywords : cohesion; cohesion markers; cohesion measures measurements; Coh-Metrix; speeches; texts;

    Abstract : This investigation explores and analyzes speeches by John McCain and Barack Obama, who were the candidates of the United States Presidential election 2008. Ten speeches by each speaker are in a non-biased way selected from the year 2007 from their official websites when they were senators of Arizona and Illinois respectively. READ MORE