Browsing Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aestetic Studies by Subject "711727"
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A Cross-linguistic Form and Meaning Priming Study on Mandarin Chinese Multilingual Speakers
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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 ... -
Becoming a Woman, Linguistically: A corpus-based analysis of Norwegian age constructions with lexemes denoting unnamed persons
(Master thesis, 2024-05-15)This thesis investigates the use of seven Norwegian lexemes to refer to unnamed persons in age-specified constructions in Norwegian newspapers. The study combines corpus analysis with critical discourse analysis from a ... -
Code-Switching in Bilingual Norwegian-English Speakers at the V2 Word Order Position
(Master thesis, 2022-06-03)This study overviews the major issues in the linguistic study of code-switching (CS), the alternating use of two languages in the same stretch of discourse by a bilingual speaker. I investigated the effect of CS to L1 ... -
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 ... -
Complexity-based Ordering of Suffixes in Norwegian
(Master thesis, 2023-05-15)Denne studien undersøker bruken av 18 avledningssuffikser i norsk bokmål, og har som mål å replikere studien gjort av Hay and Plag (2004). Studien deres forsøkte å forklare hvordan restriksjoner på affikskombinasjoner ... -
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 metonymianalyse 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
(Master thesis, 2017-12-20) -
Does the Stimulus List Composition Influence the Cognate Facilitation Effect in Bilingual Lexical Access?
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)The research explores the impact of stimulus list composition on cognate processing in Norwegian-English bilinguals through three lexical decision experiments in English with different stimulus list arrangements. The first ... -
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 ... -
Exploring lexical relations in a Norwegian dictionary
(Master thesis, 2024-11-20)Lexical relations, especially meaning relations between words, are useful for a variety of applications. Various research efforts have been aimed at compiling machine-readable networks of lexically related words (wordnets). ... -
Eye Blinks in French Sign Language Definition of eye blink types and automatic detection of eye blinks using computer vision, rule-based and machine learning-based methods.
(Master thesis, 2022-11-21)This study aims at defining the different types of eye blinks in French Sign Language as well as preparing a potential automatic eye blink types classification in creating a method that allows the detection of blinks in a ... -
Failing to listen: A study of the silencing of sexual refusals
(Master thesis, 2023-11-20)I denne oppgaven argumenterer jeg for påstanden om at fortielsen av seksuelle avvisninger utgjøres av at tilhøreren ikke har sikret perlokusjonært opptak i tolkningskonteksten. Jeg underbygger min påstand med fire ... -
Har flere folk vært i Paris enn jeg har? Tolkninger av komparative illusjoner på norsk
(Master thesis, 2022-05-20)En komparativ illusjon er en type setning vi tilsynelatende aksepterer, men hvor grammatikken lurer oss. Flere folk har vært i Paris enn jeg har. Folk pleier ikke å være bevisst på setningens illusoriske kvaliteter før ... -
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 ... -
The Impact of Norwegian language proficiency on effective communication, employee engagement and development.
(Master thesis, 2024-05-31)