• Future Present Progressive in Brazilian Portuguese 

      Rocha, Franciane (Master thesis, 2012)
      The use of the present progressive to express future is a grammatical construction imported into Portuguese from English. In this construction here called Future Present Progressive (FPP), the verbal predicate expresses ...
    • Serial Verb Constructions (SVCs) in Mandarin Chinese 

      Zhang, Miaomiao (Master thesis, 2012)
      SVC in Mandarin Chinese is a controversial phenomenon partially due to its conflicting definitions and classifications. As a data-driven project, this thesis focuses on 118 "true" SVCs and classifies them into four groups. ...
    • The classification of de-marked modification structures in Mandarin Chinese 

      Pu, Yutong (Master thesis, 2016)
      The particle de 的 occurs with higher frequency than any other particle in Mandarin Chinese. Its main function in Chinese noun phrases is to link attributive words or phrases to the head noun. Classification of the different ...
    • Translation : stylistics and grammar in a modular approach 

      Kocjan, Jana (Master thesis, 2016)
      This thesis develops further the Form-Meaning-Style (FMS) model, proposed in my own article ‘Translation: stylistics and grammar in a modular approach’ from 2014. By representing a translation model in a rich graphical ...