Search for dissertations about: "Thesis on grammatical concord"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Thesis on grammatical concord.
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1. Agreement with Collective Nouns in English
Abstract : This thesis concerns agreement with collective nouns in American, British and Australian English. It is based on material from newspaper corpora and spoken corpora. The findings suggest that dialectal, stylistic, diachronic, syntactic and semantic factors interact in the selection of singular and plural agreement. READ MORE
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2. Progression and Regression. Aspects of Advanced Swedish Students' Competence in English Grammar
Abstract : This thesis investigates advanced Swedish students’ development of three grammatical phenomena: subject-verb concord, prepositions and article use in compositions and translations. In order to describe the students’ development of these categories, actual errors are related to potential errors forming so called ‘error scores’. READ MORE