Essays about: "verb"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 167 essays containing the word verb.

  1. 21. 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

  3. 22. Verb + noun collocations with ‘do’ and ‘make’ in English language learner texts : A corpus based study

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Dahlia Rahem; [2022]
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  4. 23. Revisiting parts of the verb in Southern Nambikwara: Towards a definition of subjectivity as a grammatical category

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Emilia Roosvall; [2022]
    Keywords : Southern Nambikwara; subjectivity; epistemic marking; egophoricity; co-distributions;

    Abstract : This study investigates verb-final morphemes in Southern Nambikwara — a polysynthetic language spoken in the Mato Grosso region of southwestern Brazil. The verb-final morphemes -wa2 and -ɾa2/-la2 have previously been described as denoting an aspect distinction between imperfectivity and perfectivity (da Silva 2021; B. Kroeker 1982; M. READ MORE

  5. 24. Cognate effects in intra-sentential codeswitching in trilinguals - evidence from a read-aloud task

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Annika Milena Schimpff; [2021]
    Keywords : cognates; codeswitching; read-aloud task; language processing; language activation; speech monitoring; planned speech production; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the effect of cognates on codeswitching in planned speech production in trilinguals, which has previously been unexplored. Previous studies on cognates and codeswitching have primarily focused on cognate facilitation effects in spontaneous speech in bilinguals. READ MORE

  6. 25. This shit gonna get real heavy - A quantitative study on the use of African-American Vernacular English in The Wire and The Princess and the Frog. : This shit gonna get real heavy - En kvantitativ studie om hur afroamerikansk engelska används i The Wire och Prinsessan och grodan.

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Viktor Everstam; [2021]
    Keywords : African-American Vernacular English; AAVE; English; entertainment; linguistics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to investigate how the spoken variety African-American VernacularEnglish (AAVE) is used in entertainment. This is performed by comparing the spoken language oftwo fictional characters from two different sources of entertainment who are depicted as AAVEspeakers. READ MORE