In this thesis, I compare English particles to Czech spatial adverbs and prefixes. I discuss three aspects of the particles, adverbs and prefixes – word order, aspect and readings. The properties of the English particles seem to be divided between the spatial adverbs and prefixes in Czech. There are structural similarities between the particles and the adverbs, but the adverbs cannot have other ...

The aim of this thesis is to provide a description of the language attitudes of a group of informants from the region Zona Central in Chile toward their own and other varieties of Spanish. A second objective is to investigate the relationship between the social variables, age, education and gender, and said attitudes. The analysis is based on the answers of 69 informants and data was collected through ...

In this master thesis we will present the reality of the dialect in Andalucía region, based on the idea that the linguistic attitudes have both an affective and a cognitive component. The "andaluz" will be analysed through a survey made to native speakers of this dialect, both from West and East. The point of this paper is to get a general outlook of the situation of andaluz, and at the same time ...

In this thesis, I investigate the effect of explicit instruction on the acquisition of word order in declarative sentences with adverbs in the medial position and topicalised declaratives. Both constructions are shown to be problematic for Norwegian learners of English because of negative influence from Norwegian, which uses the V2 rule in the two structures. The study consists of a grammaticality ...

There are innumerable methodologies linked with instructed LT, each of which are based on whatever theoretical SLA rationale a researcher or teacher should fancy at a given time. In line with recent trends regarding learner-focused instruction and emphasis on communication and interaction, there has been a shift away from traditional teaching approaches linked with a structural linguistic syllabus. ...

Language transfer has been one of the most discussed topics in SLA for quite some time. It is known that Chinese is divergent from English in many ways. One of the cross-linguistic variation is that Chinese allows null subjects and null objects in formal context while English does not. We assume that when Chinese learners acquire English as their second language, they would meet difficulties in ...

Denne avhandlingen omhandler form og plassering av direkte objektspronomenet på spansk, med fokus på tredjeperson entall og flertall, hvor det finnes store kontraster mellom språkene norsk og spansk. Oppgaven har som mål å anvende feilanalysemetodikken med et didaktisk perspektiv for å identifisere problematiske områder norske elever møter når de arbeider med direkte objektspronomenet. Med bakgrunn ...

Formålet med denne undersøkelsen har vært å få større kunnskap om etternavnsendringer i Nord-Norge. Jeg var ute etter å finne mønstre og tendenser i endringene som blir gjort, og det var dermed nødvendig å foreta en kvantitativ undersøkelse. Jeg begrenset meg til navneendringer foretatt i tidsrommet 1996 - 2000, og personene i materialet måtte være bosatt i Nord-Norge. Videre satte jeg som krav at ...

Genitiv 2 er maskuliner av første deklinasjon entall som tar u-endelse i genitiv. Det er langt fra alle ord som kan ta genitiv 2 og en kan forstå det som et unntak fra regelen om a-endelse i genitiv. Allikevel kan en ofte møte genitiv 2 i russisk. Mastergradsoppgaven er en empirisk undersøkelse som tar utgangspunkt i det ulike grammatikker hevder. Undersøkelse av faktisk bruk er gjort i internettkorpuset ...

Dán váldofágabarggus mun guorahalan gieldda- ja darjjisámegiela frekventatiiva, kontinuatiiva ja momentána vearbasuorggádusaid aspektuála iešvuođaid ja buohtastahtán daid ruoššagiela vearbbaid aspeaktaiešvuođaiguin. Ruoššagielashan aspeakta lea giellaoahpalaš kategoriija, nu ahte ruoššagielat olmmoš ferte vearbbaid geavahettiinis dábálaččat válljet geavahago son imperfektiiva- vai perfektiivavearbba. ...