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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"grammatical system"”.
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The pragmatics of the modern Greek grammatical system
… with the Pragmatics of the Modern Greek (MG) grammatical system. A secondary aim is the investigation of the relationship between morpho-syntax, phonology and pragmatics’ related features which form part of the grammar, in allowing a speaker’s intention to be formulated into a linguistic …
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Focus and discourse stress
… structure interacts with the rest of the grammatical system. Stress depends more crucially on information structure than any other part of the grammar. A theory of information structure is laid out, accounting for various levels of old, new, and contrastive information. Linguistic …
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Repetition avoidance in human language
… in countless human languages and at a variety of grammatical levels. In this dissertation I ask what it is that makes repetition so bad. I propose that at least three distinct biases against repetition exist. First, repetition of articulatory gestures is relatively difficult. This difficulty …
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Case Endings in Spoken Standard Arabic
… parallel in Arabic dialects. As such it is a grammatical system learned by native speakers of Arabic through formal education. Case endings are traditionally regarded as an essential feature of Standard Arabic, but morphological case endings are used only sporadically in extemporaneous speech …
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Polysynthetic sociolinguistics: the language and culture of Murrinh Patha Youth
… language that has a number of unique grammatical structures, and which is one of the few Aboriginal languages still being learnt by children. My core interest is to understand how people’s lives shape their language, and how their language shapes their lives. In this thesis these …
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Multimodal textbook design : analyzing the construction of the discourses of pharmacology
… and Drug therapy' ('Oxford'). I focus on the grammatical system of transitivity to construct the respective textbooks' views of social reality, and I use an analysis of modality in the texts to construct the social relations between writers, readers and the subject of Pharmacology. The …