Search for dissertations about: "Finnish literature"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 swedish dissertations containing the words Finnish literature.
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1. Language contact and structural change : An Old Finnish case study
Abstract : The object of this study is to shed new light on both the influence exerted on Finnish by the Swedish language, and on the mechanisms by which language contact in structural domains takes place. It is argued that syntactic borrowing should be regarded as a subtype of reanalysis and extension rather than as an independent mechanism. READ MORE
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2. Ingrian Finnish : dialect preservation and change
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3. Deictic Demonstratives in Japanese, Finnish and Swedish : First and Third Language Perspectives
Abstract : The goal of this thesis is twofold. Firstly, it investigates the actual, native use of spatial-deictic demonstratives in Japanese, Finnish and Swedish. READ MORE
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4. “Speak your own language” : On tensions regarding Finnish in Sweden
Abstract : In this compilation dissertation I examine social tensions that relate to the Sweden Finnish minority and the Finnish language in Sweden. The dissertation is based on critical applied linguistics and I employ various related theoretical notions in the included articles. READ MORE
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5. Mastering the question : the acquisition of interrogative clauses by Finnish-speaking children
Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to chart the development of interrogative syntax among Finnish-speaking children between the ages of 1 to 4 years living in Sweden. The material consists of language samples taken from eleven Sweden-Finnish children with Finnish as their first language. READ MORE