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Synchronic analysis of combining forms in english /
The subject of the thesis is randomly collected CFs. The aim of the thesis is to analyse the CFs morphologically and semantically to shed light on their tendencies and features. The objectives to achieve the aim include exploring scientific literature on CFs, then classifying them based on previous …
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Kiowa-Tanoan: A Synchronic and Diachronic Study
… from one to three core arguments, in 50- 90 synchronically portmanteau forms, organized into 6 or more paradigms. The paradigms show heavy influence from a person-animacy-topicality hierarchy often realized through alternations in grammatical voice. The dissertation proposes a reconstruction …
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Resistivity in Contemporary Art Biennials: A Synchronic Analysis
… historiography, and instead to utilize a synchronic analysis according to host years. Synchronic analysis mobilises the temporal biennial model (of every two years) using a horizontal, relational, and comparative approach to elucidate (art) historical, political, social, and cultural …
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Explorations and extensions of synchronic modal equivalencing (SME)
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1997.
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
This thesis is a study of synchronic consonant insertions in Amfo'an, a variety of Meto (Austronesian) spoken in Western Timor. Amfo'an attests synchronic consonant insertion in two environments: before vowel-initial enclitics and to mark the right edge of the noun phrase. This constitutes two …
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Consonant Insertions: A synchronic and diachronic account of Amfo'an
This thesis is a study of synchronic consonant insertions in Amfo'an, a variety of Meto (Austronesian) spoken in Western Timor. Amfo'an attests synchronic consonant insertion in two environments: before vowel-initial enclitics and to mark the right edge of the noun phrase. This constitutes two …
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The Synchronic and Diachronic Syntax of the English Verb-Particle Combination
Contains fulltext : 40178.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Tense and Aspect in Old Japanese: Synchronic, Diachronic and Typological Perspectives
The objective of this thesis is to describe the synchronic system of tense and aspect in Old Japanese. Japanese grammarians studying the tense/aspect morphology of Old Japanese usually identify four suffixes (?(ye)ri, ?tari, ?tu, and ?nu) as kanry? ?perfect? markers and two suffixes (?ki and …
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Things in time: a digital synchronic analysis of manuscript newsletters (1575-76)
The development of a news culture in early modern Europe profoundly affected the perception of time. Because political conceptions are generally understood to be historically rooted, this also affected the way in which political identities and unities were defined. I have therefore analysed and …
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Optimal reduced oder modeling of power systems based on synchronic modal equivalencing
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996.
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Immediate and extended intersubjectivity : synchronic and diachronic interplay among evidentiality, factuality and other domains
… diachronic continuum between the two, I provide synchronic and diachronic data from a number of qualitative and quantitative corpus surveys on the immediate and extended intersubjectification of some constructions and in particular the presuppositional chunk [you don’t want X] in British and …
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A synchronic classification of Rukai dialects in Taiwan: A quantitative study of mutual intelligibility
… thesis investigates mutual intelligibility and synchronic relationship among five Rukai dialects in Taiwan (Formosa). Cheng's (1990, 1992a and 1992b) quantitative method for classifying Chinese dialects is adopted in this study. The mutual intelligibility at issue is systemic mutual …
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The perfect in Old English and Old Saxon: the synchronic and diachronic correspondence of form and meaning
… generally been assumed, in which there is little synchronic variation in their use and a steady, though not necessarily continuous, diachronic progress toward the state observed in the modern languages. The goal of this work is to provide accurate quantitative data regarding the apportionment of …
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["At That Time"] in the Hebrew Bible and Its Role in Daniel 12:1: A Diachronic and Synchronic Study on Semantics of Narrative and Prophetic Temporality
… of this dissertation combines diachronic and synchronic approaches. First, as a diachronic procedure, it analyzes ["at that time"] in the Hebrew Bible to determine its temporality in each case, and second, as a synchronic approach, it studies the temporality of ["at that time"] in the context …
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The Development of Czech Aspectual Prefixes Through Grammaticalization and Lexicalization Processes
… in this work incorporates diachronic and synchronic perspectives and presents a theory about the path of development of aspectual prefixes in the framework of construction grammar. It draws from a central notion that grammar emerges from discourse and argues that the development of …
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Tone Change in Cantonese
… the various types of tone change from both the synchronic and diachronic perspectives. After a description of the tone alternations, the Cantonese syllable and tone in Chapter 1, Chapter 2 works out an analysis of the regular cases and proposes an assimilation rule and a deletion rule in the …
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Musical Ambiguity in Analysis and Composition: Problems of Pattern, Value, Form, and Structure
… forms of structural ambiguity, diachronic and synchronic recomposition, within a discussion of "open works" and "open systems" which draws on the work of Umberto Eco and Jacques Derrida. The conceptual relationship of diachronic composition to Aurel Stroe's "morphogenetic music" and Marc …
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A language-based approach to categorical analysis
… computational model of electronic text, called a synchronic imprint, which uses structural information to contextualize the meaning of words. Every concept in the body of a text is described by its relationships with other concepts in the same text, allowing classification systems to distinguish …
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