Essays about: "using adjectives"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 31 essays containing the words using adjectives.

  1. 1. Benrina Yatsu: A Quantitative Corpus Study of the Usage of the Japanese Nominaliser Yatsu Together with Adjectives

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Author : Robin Weinemo; [2023]
    Keywords : Japanese; nominalisation; yatsu; written corpus; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Yatsu has both been described as an ‘abusive’ version of the nominaliser mono, as well having properties not shared with mono. In this paper, the Japanese nominaliser yatsu was examined using the written corpus Balanced Corpus of Contemporary Written Japanese (BCCWJ) created by the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). READ MORE

  3. 2. Wicked Witches and Evil Queens? : A corpus-based study of the near-synonyms evil and wicked in contemporary American English

    University essay from Högskolan Väst/Institutionen för individ och samhälle

    Author : Mariam Barazeghi; [2023]
    Keywords : adjectives; collocations; corpus linguistics; dictionaries; gender studies; synonyms;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to examine what contemporary corpora can reveal about the use of the two adjectives evil and wicked. These two synonyms have been analysed using corpus linguistics in order to acquire results about the differences between them regarding frequency of use, as well as their collocating nouns. READ MORE

  4. 3. Formal model of eligibility requirements for the Department of Computing Science

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Jonathan Sundqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This paper aims to formally model the eligibility requirements for the Department of Computing Science at Umea University. As of now, the requirements are written in plain text resulting in students or lecturers having to evaluate these manually. Eligibility requirements can be built complex which makes it difficult to handle manually. READ MORE

  5. 4. We might aways use hedges and boosters in text : The English-Swedish translation of hedges and boosters in an academic literature textbook

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Olivia Lagerqvist; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This paper discusses the translation of hedges and boosters from English to Swedish in an academic textbook. In a statement, hedges express uncertainty and carefulness, while boosters are used to express certainty and confidence. READ MORE

  6. 5. Semantic change and the description of disability : A diachronic corpus study of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Andreas Johansson; [2022]
    Keywords : corpus of historical american english; euphemism; language change; lexical change; pejoration; semantics;

    Abstract : With data from the Corpus of Historical American English, this study charts the semantic development of lame, crippled, handicapped, and disabled from the 1900s to the 2010s. Using both qualitative concordance line examination and frequency data, it attempts to determine what types of change have occurred in American English (as represented by COHA) within each adjective. READ MORE