Search for dissertations about: "general subordinators"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words general subordinators.
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1. Modality and Subordinators in the Germanic Languages and beyond
Abstract : This thesis argues that general subordinators, such as the Germanic THAT and IF, denote propositional modality. Propositional modality stands for the “speaker’s attitude to the truth-value or factual status of the proposition” (Palmer 2001:24) and is otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers. READ MORE
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2. The Emergence of Conditional Subordinators in Swedish : A Study in Grammaticalization
Abstract : This thesis is an empirical and theoretical study of the emergence of five Swedish conditional subordinators: utan, om, hvar, ifall and bara. The first changes occur in the 13th century, and the last in the 18th century. READ MORE