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Showing 1 to 20 of 63 for “"Conjunctions"”.
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Conjunctions and Grammatical Agreement
In a second study involving both Lebanese Arabic and English speakers, a picture description task manipulated the position of the subject relative to the verb and revealed that singular verbs were much more frequent with postverbal (versus preverbal) subjects and that lexically plural nouns were …
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Production of conjunctions and T-units by the elderly
… research examined specifically the production of conjunctions from the perspective of Halliday and Hasan (1976) in procedural and narrative discourse by the elderly. The hypothesis stated that the relationship between age and conjunctions produced would be non-significant. In a cross-sectional …
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Spatial mechanisms in the recovery of visual feature conjunctions
… to be dependent upon the recovery of feature conjunctions. The mechanism(s) responsible for re-establishing appropriate feature combinations has yet to be fully explicated but it appears possible that the common spatial location of features may provide a basis for a solution to the 'feature …
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Continuums and Conjunctions: An assemblage of Eastern and Western architectural and philosophical perspectives
Continuums and Conjunctions examines spatial relationships in contemporary Chinese high- rise architectural design in the context of rapid urbanization. Traditional Chinese architecture was guided by the principles of Feng Shui, placing emphasis upon a harmonious interrelation of architectural and …
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Discourse for Preaching: The Homiletical Significance of Selected Greek Conjunctions in the Epistle to the Hebrews
… dissertation is aimed at understanding how Greek conjunctions serve as authorial instruction to discern the discourse structure of the Epistle to the Hebrews to guide expositors to establish a homiletical structure for preaching. This is demonstrated through the analysis of seven conjunctions in …
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The representation and distribution of conjunctions in selected Sepedi home language textbooks : a corpus-based Investigation
Different views exist concerning the function of conjunctions in Sepedi language. The use of a comma with some of Sepedi conjunctions is the most controversial aspect, regarding the usage of conjunctions in this language. While several studies have been conducted on various linguistic aspects …
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A Corpus-Based Study on the Portuguese Translations of English Adversative Coordinating Conjunctions and Adverbs in News Texts
… study examines how adversative coordinating conjunctions and conjunctive adverbs are translated from English into Brazilian Portuguese through a parallel corpus built specifically for this research. The corpus is composed of 59 news articles extracted from the online versions of the British …
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Conjunction is more than just a grammatical resource: a comparative study of conjunctions in U.S. and Chinese mathematics lessons
… speak clearly, coherently and logically. Conjunctions can be instrumental to support this in that they help connect different ideas and allow speakers to elaborate, extend, and enhance their mathematical statements. Borrowing from the systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, …
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Investigating the use of conjuctions in essay writing by selected second-level non-native English students at a South African University
… their ideas. This includes using appropriate conjunctions to present a comprehensive and logical piece of written work. Therefore, this study investigated the use of conjunctions in essay writing by selected second-level non-native English students at a South African University. The research …
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Two processing modes in visual search
… the efficiency of visual search for their conjunctions, needs qualification. This paper proposes two modes of visual search, one in which attributes act independently to guide focal attention and another in which attributes interact in guiding focal attention. Evidence for attribute …
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… -- Features of production (coordinating conjunctions, hedges, neuter pronouns, collocations, etc.) -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Basic writers, oral strategies, and the writing process
… -- Features of production (coordinating conjunctions, hedges, neuter pronouns, collocations, etc.) -- Features of interaction (personal pronouns, hyperbole, emphatics) -- Textual analysis evaluation -- Comparison of written words, oral features, and essay grades or scores received.
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Programming in three dimensions
… to distinguish between logical disjunctions and conjunctions, and between sum and product types.
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High Frequency Radio Wave Transionospheric Propagation Polarization Studies from the RRI-SuperDARN Experiment
… conjunction with RRI flybys. There have been 88 conjunctions between RRI and SuperDARN over 4 years (2014-2018). The changing polarization state of the radar signal as it propagates through the ionosphere, transionospheric propagation, is the scientific focus of this thesis. Polarization …
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Structure and content in children's concepts of emotion
… of emotion is held to rest on knowledge of conjunctions between antecedents and behaviour, but evidence suggests children acquire general categorical knowledge of conjunctions and labels independently of event schemata, because it serves the distinct function of causal understanding. …
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Sun-Synchronous Orbit Slot Architecture Analysis and Development
… orbit is considered in order to mitigate conjunctions among active satellites. This paper furthers work done in Sun-synchronous orbit slot architecture design and focuses on two main aspects. First, an in-depth relative motion analysis of satellites with respect to their assigned slots is …
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A comparative study of the future subjunctive tense in Spanish and Portuguese.
… sentences introduced by "if" and the substitute conjunctions for "if", adverbial clauses, and relative clauses. The study also includes the future subjunctive as the substitute tense for the present tenses of the indicative and subjunctive moods. To complete the study a comparison is made of the …
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Evaluative Thinking Amid Disaster
… rates of personal pronouns, impersonal pronouns, conjunctions, auxiliary verbs , and non-referential adverbs were higher during the speaking mode than writing mode, while the rates of articles, prepositions, and negations were similar between modes. There were significant mode x style interaction …
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The syntax and semantics of And-Coordination in Kaonde
… of the same kind. Further, it was observed that conjunctions play a very important role in ensuring that coordinated meaning is expressed. The study explored semantic functions of and-coordination in Kaonde. It was observed that and-coordination denotes a relationship between and/or among …
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The syntax and semantics of And-Coordination in Kaonde
… of the same kind. Further, it was observed that conjunctions play a very important role in ensuring that coordinated meaning is expressed. The study explored semantic functions of and-coordination in Kaonde. It was observed that and-coordination denotes a relationship between and/or among …
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