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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Word formation"”.
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Syntax and word formation
Thesis (Ph.D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1983.
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Morphological Segmentation in Czech using Word-Formation Network
Morfologická segmentace se zabývá dělením slov na morfémy - nejmenší jednotky nesoucí význam. Jedná se o nízkoúrovňový problém z oblasti zpracování přirozeného jazyka. Jelikož se morfologická segmentace někdy používá jako metoda předzpracování dat, její zlepšení může pomoci algoritmům řešícím …
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Word formation of place names in old english /
Word Formation of Place Names in Old English This bachelor thesis is focused on word formation of place-names in Old English. The aim of this bachelor paper is to analyse word formation types of place-names found in Old English Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. To accomplish it, the following objectives were …
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Some aspects of the paradigmatic analysis of old English word-formation
Tras realizar una revisión de las investigaciones previas centradas en la morfología y la lexicología del inglés antiguo, se ha constatado que han quedado pendientes de analizar ciertas cuestiones relacionadas con la formación de palabras. Por ello, este trabajo, tomando como referencia conceptos …
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Neologisms in LXX Jeremiah: Word Formation within the History of Greek
… very few studies devoted to the topic of “new words” have materialized. This dissertation examines the identification and interpretation of putative neologisms, Greek words allegedly coined by the translators of the Septuagint as a result of Hebrew interference, applying cognitive and …
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Locative relations in American Sign Language word formation, syntax and discourse
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 1985.
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Headedness in word formation and lexical semantics : evidence from Italiot and Cypriot
… associated with head, focusing on headedness in Word Formation and Lexical Semantics. In particular, the purpose of my thesis is to enquire into the notion head with focus on the following three issues: (a) delimitation, (b) position, and (c) presence and absence of head in morphological …
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Word formation in Icelandic sign language. When identity becomes signs: Queer-related signs in ÍTM
… Drawing on previous research in sign language word formation, the study analyzes how these signs were formed and compares them to established processes such as borrowing, initialization, and compounding. Methods were used including selected signs analyzation and two semi-structured interviews …
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Some aspects of word-formation in isiZulu : with special reference to morphological and Lexical processes
Word-formation has received very little attention in isiZulu in the past. This situation has been caused by the approach of word analysis which was pioneered by grammarians like Doke (1956), Nyembezi (1965) and others that followed in their steps. The main aim of this study is therefore to put …
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Diachronic word-formation: a corpus-based study of derived nominalizations in the history of English.
This dissertation investigates the history of derived nominalizations in English from 1500 to the present day, with special reference to the deverbal nominalizing suffix -(t)ion and the deadjectival nominalizing suffixes, -ness and -ity. The data are drawn from two historical corpora of English …
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Verbal and Nominal Properties in Deverbal and Process Nominals
… mixed categories with a general mechanism of word-formation based on the single-engine syntactic approach coupled with a lexical decomposition. I show that the traditional idea that clustering certain properties are necessarily associated with certain first-order categories is not valid. …
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A constructionist view of complex interactions between inflection and derivation: the case of SMG and Griko
… lexicalist orientation with both inflection and word formation within the lexicon, and the proposed word-formation schema (construction) is applicable to both derivation and inflection. The CM framework provides effective solutions to the problems discussed in the relevant chapters and paves the …
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Topics in the stress and syntax of words
This dissertation is a study of word structure showing that words exhibit the syntactic phenomenon of phase-by-phase Spell-Out, Chomsky (2001), Marantz (2001). The analysis of data from English and Slovenian indicates that the syntactic structure in word formation, specifically, the existence of …
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Morphological process feeding in the formation of old english nouns: Zero-derivation, affixation and compounding
… the derivative processes intervening in nominal formations in Old English, by analysing their interaction, combinability and recursivity. The aim of this work is twofold. On the descriptive side, it contributes to fill the gap on derivational studies for this stage of the language as stated by …
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Turkish as an immigrant and heritage language in the UK: Effects of exposure and age at onset of bilingualism on grammatical and lexical development of the first language
… structural complexity, foreign accentedness, and word formation. The synthesis of the findings obtained from three empirical studies written as chapters of this thesis suggested that this was not the case. The productivity in word formation, for example, was largely independent of AaO effect and …
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Formação de nomes aumentativos: estudos da produtividade de alguns sufixos portugueses
… for previous proposals for separation between word formation rules and redundancy rules. Non-focused phenomena are also described in the traditional treatment of augmentative names in Portuguese.
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Development of Morphological Awareness in Chinese and English
… rules, which might reflect the nature of Chinese word formation in that there are far fewer derivatives than compounds in Chinese. Because the correlation between morphological awareness and reading proficiency was higher among Taiwanese students than American students, morphological awareness …
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Padrões rítmicos e marcação de caso em Marubo (Pano)
… and the other linguistic levels. The main word formation processes and case-marking system are described. Semantic/pragmatic case-role coding devices are identified. At the same time there is an attempt to detect the rhythmic oscillations resulting from these processes as well as other …
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Syncope and Epenthesis in Levantine Arabic: A Nonlinear Approach
… McCarthy (1979, 1981) showed that many Arabic word formation rules can be conceived of as stipulating a CV template to which the segmental phonemes are autosegmentally mapped. In addition, he showed that the Semitic root pattern system can be reduced to the assumption that radical consonants …
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