Browsing Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aestetic Studies by Subject "711727"
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Agentless constructions in English. A Contrastive study with Spanish.
(Master thesis, 2015-05-04)In the present work we have described and classified agentless constructions in English with side views to similar constructions in Spanish, Russian and German. Since reflexives account for the major part of agentless ... -
Akkusative subjekt og antikausativitet i norrønt
(Master thesis, 2011-05-11)Antikausativitet kan markeres på flere måter i norrønt. En av disse er å markere subjektet med et ikke-nominativt kasus, i dette tilfellet akkusativ. I denne undersøkelsen argumenterer jeg for at akkusative subjekt bør ses ... -
Analysis of Hen and Gradable adjectives in Mandarin Chinese
(Master thesis, 2017-06-13)In Mandarin Chinese, gradable adjectives map the properties of the arguments into abstract representations. The intensifiers can modify gradable adjectives. Hen, an intensifier, is widely used in Mandarin Chinese. There ... -
Balancing bilingualism down the garden path
(Master thesis, 2016-05-17)Many factors affect how difficult a sentence is to read. Gibson (2006; 1998) proposed that people combine (a) context-dependent syntactic expectations (top-down statistical information) and (b) context-independent ... -
Codeswitching on Ghanaian radio talk-shows: "Bilingualism as an asset"
(Master thesis, 2015-05-13)Codeswitching (CS) between Akan and English in recent times has become a tool used on Akan radio, to disseminate information in Ghana. This study explored the functions CS plays during formal interaction on Akan radio ... -
Control and raising: Gone with(out) a trace?
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"Den neste hevnlystne terroristen kan lure bak det neste hjørnet" - Kritisk metafor og metoymianalyse av det politiske ordskiftet rundt terror
(Master thesis, 2018-10-09)Denne avhandlinga undersøker den politiske terrordiskursen på Stortinget i Norge. Ved hjelp av innsikter og premisser fra teorien om begrepsmetaforer og -metonymi (som så dagens lys med Lakoff og Johnson) utforsker oppgava ... -
A descriptive analysis of the nature and formation of amharic internal reduplication: A copu and association model
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Ei undersøking av finansterminologi i undervisning og formidling
(Master thesis, 2012-05-15)I denne masteroppgåva har eg undersøkt finansterminologi i undervisning og formidling. Eg har delt ut ei haldningsundersøking til økonomistudentar for å sjå kva haldningar dei har til bruken av engelsk i ei elles norsk ... -
Iconicity in Verb Serialisation. Re-analyzing Akan SVCs
(Master thesis, 2015-05-14)The extant works on serial verb constructions (SVCs) in the Akan language categorize verb serialization into clause chaining (CC) and integrated serial verb (ISV) constructions based on the notion of the degree of semantic ... -
"Litt vanskeleg og litt keisamt, eigentleg" - Ei gransking av normoppfatningar hjå unge nynorskbrukarar
(Master thesis, 2018-10-09)Denne granskinga har som hovudmål å få djupare innsikt i kva for oppfatningar unge nynorskbrukarar har av nynorsknormalen, med omsyn til følgjande spørsmål: 1. Samsvarar elevane sin oppfatta normal med den faktiske normalen? ... -
Om nominal tellelighet
(Master thesis, 2013-05-09)This thesis aims to investigate aspects of nominal countability, mainly in Norwegian common nouns. There is a constant debate on how best to describe the countability of nouns, typically claimed for Indo-European languages. ... -
On the consciousness of anglicisms in Norwegian youth language
(Master thesis, 2009-08-27)In Europe, English language, as the language of national integration, is the most dominant word-donor to other less popular languages. But, is usage of English words a sign of cosmopolitanism or rather a sign of strange ... -
Priming adult beginner learners: A study of cross-linguistic lexical priming in German and Spanish learners of Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2016-05-17)In a previous experiment, Stremme, Troland, and Johansson (2014) found that beginner learners of Norwegian also experience an effect of meaning related words in a primed lexical decision task. The study tested the effect ... -
Production and comprehension deficit in Broca's Aphasia: A test in Bengali
(Master thesis, 2017-06-14)This thesis aims to examine the nature of language production and comprehension deficits of Bengali speaking Broca’s aphasics. Two grammatical aspects have been the focus of the present research: postpositions and word ... -
A study of cross-linguistic form and meaning priming through reaction times in lexical decision tasks
(Master thesis, 2015-11-20)In a series of open priming lexical decision tasks, the influences of meaning form and lexical reaction time were investigated. All experiments used the same stimuli in order to be able to compare the collected reaction ... -
Study on brand names by use of lexical recognition tasks
(Master thesis, 2016-11-20)A primed lexical decision task was conducted to test different theories about the nature of brand names. Some linguists and philosophers state, that they are a subclass of proper names and that they are directly referential, ... -
Studying noun categorization in Persian children's story books
(Master thesis, 2013-09-01)The object of study throughout this thesis is the focus on Eleanor Rosch's principles of noun categorization within Persian children's storybooks. -
*Vanlige måter å gjøre feil. Forholdsvis hyppige forekommende, ugrammatiske konstruksjoner i norsk - at, når og hvorfor de brukes
(Master thesis, 2011-11-21)Det finnes syntaktiske konstruksjoner parseren synes ha større vansker med å prosessere enn andre. Slike konstruksjoner realiseres forholdsvis ofte som ugrammatiske. Noen av dem presenteres i denne oppgaven, sammen med en ... -
We speak with our hands and voices": Iconicity in the Adamorobe Sign Language and the Akuapem Twi (Ideophones)
(Master thesis, 2015-05-11)Abstract This research drew on the linguistic concept of iconicity and with a period of three months, five deaf signers of the Adamorobe community and some unspecified Akuapem Twi (Akan) speakers were studied and interviewed. ...