Search for dissertations about: "past participle"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 swedish dissertations containing the words past participle.
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1. On the development of the present active participle in Bulgarian
Abstract : The purpose of the study is to chronicle the loss and to a certain extent the restoration of the present active participle in Middle Bulgarian. Also problems concerning the past active participle 1 and the question of the gerund are touched upon. READ MORE
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2. Preterite and Past Participle Forms in English 1680–1790 : Standardisation Processes in Public and Private Writing
Abstract : The present study surveys variation and standardisation processes in the use of preterite and past participle forms in English texts included in A Corpus of Public and Private Writing (1680–1790), PPW. Quantitative and qualitative changes in the varied spelling of -ED forms of regular verbs (e.g. READ MORE
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3. The Syntax of the Swedish Present Participle
Abstract : Abstract The Syntax of the Swedish Present Participle offers a generative analysis of the Swedish present participle with the central goal of accounting for its distribution and function. The analysis offered rests on three hypotheses: (i) Present participles are verbs, (ii) Present participles can appear in complex predicates, and (iii) Adjunct present participial clauses may be interpreted through Control, where Control is assumed to equal an Agree relation. READ MORE
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4. (De)composing the middle : A minimalist approach to middles in English and Swedish
Abstract : This thesis is concerned with a particular type of generic sentence that is referred to as the ‘middle construction’ in the literature. The aim of the thesis is to offer a theoretical account of middles couched within the non-lexicalist framework of Distributed Morphology (see Halle & Marantz 1993 and subsequent work), and, more generally, within the Minimalist Program (see e. READ MORE
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5. The Syntax of Past Participles. A Generative Study of Nonfinite Constructions in Ancient and Modern Italian
Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is double. First, it will be shown that a number of problems of the syntax of ancient, literary Italian lend themselves readily to an analysis in terms of the Theory of Principles and Parameters. READ MORE