Máster en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e a súas Aplicacións: Recent submissions
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The fantasy of the female : gender construction in the fantasy genre
(2018)I have always been an avid reader of fantasy fiction. I enjoyed, and still do, the infinite possibilities which its created worlds offered to explore and discover a new, different reality. However, as I grew older, I began ... -
A preliminary corpus-based diachronic analysis of the behavioral profile of a set of near-synonyms in American English
(2015)The present master dissertation, which is a preliminary corpus-based behavioral profile (henceforth BP) study examines the competition and usage patterns of the attributive uses of the following set of adjective near-synonyms ... -
Changes in argument structure: developments in impersonal constructions since late middle English. A preliminary corpus-based study
(2015)This MA thesis is an investigation into the so-called impersonal construction (e.g. Me liketh nat to lye ‘I do not like to lie’), with a focus on the Late Middle English and Early Modern English periods. Morphosyntactically, ...