Lloberes Salvatella, Marina (Date of defense: 2016-09-06)
Because parsers are still limited in analysing specific ambiguous constructions, the research presented in this thesis mainly aims to contribute to the improvement of parsing performance when it has ...
Lefkaditou, Theodora (Date of defense: 2014-07-08)
The thesis is an inquiry into the social and cultural implications of the Bahian Capoeira teachers’ transnational mobilities and consequent immobilities. Following the trajectories of young male teachers ...
Joan Rodríguez, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2019-11-29)
This dissertation aims to put forward a thorough reflection on contemporary processes of identity constructions, both individual and collective, which are criss-crossed by experiences of migration ...
Martín i Díaz, Jordi (Date of defense: 2017-09-19)
During the collapse of Socialist Yugoslavia and amid a concomitant process to ethnically divide Bosnia, Sarajevo suffered through a siege which after three-and-a-half years resulted in a completely new ...
Walls, Francesca (Date of defense: 2018-12-07)
This thesis assesses how languages are managed in families with at least one transnational anglophone parent (TAP) resident in the metropolitan region of Barcelona. The languages chosen by TAPS for use ...
Picazo Jaque, Claudia (Date of defense: 2017-11-29)
The aim of this dissertation is to explore the hypothesis that language is occasion- sensitive. To hold that language is occasion-sensitive is to hold that the truth-conditions of most of our utterances ...
Rey Sampedro, David Alejandro (Date of defense: 2016-12-20)
The present dissertation explores the hypothesis that English is a language with time-shifting grammatical devices. According to this hypothesis, the linguistic objects of English grammar which serve ...
Oms Sardans, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-12-19)
In this dissertation I examine some of the most relevant proposals of common solutions to the Liar and the Sorites paradoxes. In order to do that, I present first a definition of what a paradox is so ...
Albert Gandía, Milagros (Date of defense: 2016-11-29)
This is a thesis about word definition. Early developmental studies of word definition, tested nous rather than other morphological categories (adjectives, verbs). As some authors have pointed out ...
Valenciano i Mañé, Alba (Date of defense: 2017-12-22)
This thesis is about grassroots strategies of material and political extraversion. It is an ethnography of the provisioning of clothing goods in Equatorial Guinea and it bridges the everyday lives of ...