Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar Institutionen för svenska språket: Recent submissions
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Studies in computational historical linguistics: Models and analyses
(2015-10-22)Computational analysis of historical and typological data has made great progress in the last fifteen years. In this thesis, I work with vocabulary lists for addressing some classical problems in historical linguistics ... -
Progressive constructions in Swedish
(2015-09-18)This thesis aims to provide new insights into the semantic properties of some progressive constructions in Swedish and to provide better understanding of aspect in Swedish. The five included studies present analyses of ... -
Purism på glid? Studier i nutida isländskt ordbruk
(2015-02-25)The aim of this thesis is to investigate changes in vocabulary use in modern Icelandic. This is done by surveying loanwords not conforming to loanword patterns dominant in standard Icelandic since the rise of purism in the ... -
The Game of Health Search
(2014-10-31)Almost two of three Swedes use internet to search for health related information on diseases, treatments and care givers. Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets are increasingly used to carry out these activities, ... -
Modala hjälpverb i språkhistorisk belysning
(2014-08-29)In this thesis, the syntactic and morphological characteristics of modal verbs in Swedish have been investigated in order to identify and examine the changes these verbs have undergone. The survey was conducted as a ... -
”Herravälde. Är det bara killar eller?” Andraspråksläsare möter lärobokstexter i historia för gymnasieskolan.
(2014-05-23)This thesis explores and characterizes Swedish high school students’ encounters with history textbook texts, with a focus on students having Swedish as their second language. Reading history textbooks entails comprehending ... -
Hårt arbete och sträng vila
(2014-05-21)The objective of this thesis is to investigate collocations (like hard work) from the lexicographical and lexicological perspectives. In the lexicographical study the general role of collocations in dictionaries is discussed, ... -
Vägar till förståelse. Andraspråkstalare i samtal med en studie- och yrkesvägledare.
(2013-05-29)The aim of this work is to explore how shared understanding is achieved in career counseling with second language clients. Video-recorded counselling sessions are analysed along with participant interviews and other secondary ... -
Skrifterna från Hoppet. C.H. Braads ostindiska resa 1748–49
(2013-05-17)This thesis deals with the writings of Christopher Hinric Braad (1728–81), employee of the Swedish East India Company, and more specifical¬ly with the manuscripts from his first journey, from Gothenburg to Canton, in the ... -
I see what you mean
(2013-04-03)This thesis aims to identify linguistic factors that affect readability and text comprehension, viewed as a function of text complexity. Features at various linguistic levels suggested in existing literature are evaluated, ... -
Att hantera praktiken – om sfi-studerandes möjligheter till interaktion och lärande på praktikplatser
(2013-02-13)The overall aim of this work is to explore and problematize adult second language students’ opportunities for interaction and language learning at work placements. The study is designed as four case studies where students ... -
Multilingual text generation from structured formal representations
(2013-01-11)This thesis aims to identify the optimal ways in which natural language generation techniques can be brought to bear upon the problem of processing a structured body of information in order to devise a coherent presentation ... -
En matchningsdriven semantisk modell. Mellan ordboken och den interna grammatiken
(2012-05-08)This thesis presents Matchningsdriven semantisk modell [Match-driven Semantic Model] (MSM). The Model was developed in order to facilitate the analysis of the semantic structure of corpus data, but the central component, ... -
Tala om att tänka – om processer och projekt vid användning av orden tänka och tanke i tre samtal
(2012-04-20)This thesis is a qualitative investigation of how the Swedish verb "tänka" and the noun "tanke" are used in three radio phone-in counseling conversations (the words are comparable with, but not equivalent to, the English ... -
Skolspråk i utveckling. En- och flerspråkiga elevers bruk av grammatiska metaforer i senare skolår.
(2011-09-29)Abstract The aim of this thesis is to compare the use of grammatical metaphor in 365 texts written by Swedish mono- and multilingual students in year 9 and 11, both regarding occurrence of GM and the use of its ... -
Skriftspråksutveckling under högstadiet
(2011-04-28)The aim of this thesis is to characterize patterns of development in texts written by pupils in secondary school in Sweden. The thesis applies both a traditional quantitative approach to 318 texts and an approach based on ... -
Platsannonsen i tiden. Den orubricerade platsannonsen 1955 - 2005
(2011-04-28)The aim of this thesis is to analyse potential changes in the genre of recruitment advertisement during the period 1955 to 2005, and investigate if changes in society can explain these changes in the genre. The study ... -
Resolving power of search keys in MedEval, a Swedish medical test collection with user groups: doctors and patients
(2010-09-17)This thesis describes the making of a Swedish medical text collection, unique in its kind in providing a possibility to choose user group: doctors or patients. The thesis also describes a series of pilot studies which ... -
På rak sak. Om ordförbindelser och konventionaliserade uttryck bland unga språkbrukare i flerspråkiga miljöer.
(2010-08-19)The overall aim of the thesis is to investigate and describe the use and mastery of different types of phraseological units and conventionalized expressions in the language of adolescents in multilingual environments. ... -
Temperatur i språk och tanke. En jämförande semantisk studie av svenska temperaturadjektiv
(2010-05-20)In this thesis, seven temperature adjectives in Swedish are analysed: varm ’warm’, kall ’cold’, het ’hot’, ljum/ljummen ’lukewarm’ or ’tepid’, kylig ’chilly’, sval ’cool’ and mild ’mild’. A model for analysis, inspired by ...