Ausensi, Josep (Date of defense: 2021-10-06)
This dissertation explores the division of labor between grammar and the lexicon from the viewpoint of event structural theories which take verb meanings to decompose into event templates and roots. ...
Machin, Elizabeth Anne-Marie (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
The main aim of this doctoral research was to explore the motivations of foreign language learners / users, and to offer insights into what a foreign language means to them in the here-and-now, and ...
Álvarez Vidal, Sergi (Date of defense: 2021-09-28)
The recent improvements in neural MT (NMT) have driven a shift from statistical MT (SMT) to NMT, which has propelled the use of post-editing (PE) in translation workflows. However, many professional ...
Menéndez Rodríguez, Bruno (Date of defense: 2022-05-25)
Cross-modal and intra-modal language transfer divergences were analysed along with developmental ones from the multilingual texts written by 13 deaf sign-multilingual teenage learners whose L1 ...
Santamaría Martínez, Mezteli Suyapa (Date of defense: 2023-02-08)
In the last couple of years, medical information has been presented across different digital and visual forms of communication. Mainly, comics are published on various social media platforms and ...
Shafirova, Liudmila (Date of defense: 2020-07-28)
Second language use online has become a regular practice for many Internet users reflecting the emergence of new participatory cultures in the virtual world. However, little is yet known about the ...
Zhang, Leticia Tian (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)
When watching television, many people use social media to share real-time opinions and feelings. The mediated co-viewing is widely studied under the name of “second screen” or “social TV”. In Japan and ...