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1	Adjektiva v postnominální pozici bez doplnění / Uncomplemented postnominal adjectives Mervová, Lenka January 2016 (has links) The thesis provides a quantitative survey and a detailed description of noun postmodification by single uncomplemented adjectives, i.e. cases where a modifying adjective phrase represented only by an adjective follows a head noun. The theoretical background of this thesis is based mainly on Randolph Quirk et al.'s A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language (1985). The data for empirical corpus based research have been drawn from the British National Corpus by the means of a corpus query extracting the sequence noun+adjective+verb. This query returned 6,413 concordance lines out of which, after manual assessment, the resultant sample of 4,627 examples was compiled. The data obtained were further examined and categorized, revealing that up to eleven categories are needed to account for the syntactic, semantic, pragmatic factors, and other communicative implications and lexicalized conventions that motivate the use the postnominal position.
2	The Southern Sotho relative in discourse Mischke, Gertruida Elizabeth 11 1900 (has links) Southern Sotho verbal relative clauses are, on discourse-pragmatic grounds, categorised as direct and indirect. The pragmatic factors that govern the occurrence of these two types of relatives within a particular discourse context are investigated. An analysis of relative clauses occurring in live conversations as well as in the dramas Bulane (Khaketla, 1983) and Tjootjo e tla hloma sese/a (Maake, 1992) reveals that direct relative clauses usually modify the reference of predicate nouns (i.e. nouns used as the complements of copulative predicates), while indirect relative clauses modify the reference of object nouns. Theories which suggest that both predicate as well as object nouns generally convey new information, but that the reference status of predicate nouns is non-specific indefinite, while that of object nouns is specific indefinite, are discussed. A hypothesis suggesting that there is an interrelationship between the reference status of a head noun and the type of relative by means of which it is qualified, is proposed. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages) Relative Relative clause Qualificative clause Direct relative Indirect relative Function of relative clause Restrictive relative clause Non-restrictive relative clause Identifying relative clause Descriptive relative clause Characterising relative clause Reference Denotation Referring expression Head noun Predicative noun Subject Object Predicate Copulative Copulative complement Discourse analysis Discourse pragmatics Identifying characteristics of referents Attributes of referents 496.397725 Sotho language -- Relative clauses Sotho language -- Discourse analysis
3	The Southern Sotho relative in discourse Mischke, Gertruida Elizabeth 11 1900 (has links) Southern Sotho verbal relative clauses are, on discourse-pragmatic grounds, categorised as direct and indirect. The pragmatic factors that govern the occurrence of these two types of relatives within a particular discourse context are investigated. An analysis of relative clauses occurring in live conversations as well as in the dramas Bulane (Khaketla, 1983) and Tjootjo e tla hloma sese/a (Maake, 1992) reveals that direct relative clauses usually modify the reference of predicate nouns (i.e. nouns used as the complements of copulative predicates), while indirect relative clauses modify the reference of object nouns. Theories which suggest that both predicate as well as object nouns generally convey new information, but that the reference status of predicate nouns is non-specific indefinite, while that of object nouns is specific indefinite, are discussed. A hypothesis suggesting that there is an interrelationship between the reference status of a head noun and the type of relative by means of which it is qualified, is proposed. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages) Relative Relative clause Qualificative clause Direct relative Indirect relative Function of relative clause Restrictive relative clause Non-restrictive relative clause Identifying relative clause Descriptive relative clause Characterising relative clause Reference Denotation Referring expression Head noun Predicative noun Subject Object Predicate Copulative Copulative complement Discourse analysis Discourse pragmatics Identifying characteristics of referents Attributes of referents 496.397725 Sotho language -- Relative clauses Sotho language -- Discourse analysis

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