Search for dissertations about: "predicative"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 19 swedish dissertations containing the word predicative.

  2. 1. "Honourable" or "Highly-sexed" : Adjectival Descriptions of Male and Female Characters in Victorian and Contemporary Children's Fiction

    Author : Hanna Andersdotter Sveen; Merja Kytö; Claudia Claridge; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; 19th-century English; adjectives; attributive; British National Corpus; characters; children s fiction; contemporary; corpus linguistics; description; evaluative meaning; female; gender; male; part description; predicative; semantic domains; syntactic function; Victorian; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This corpus-based study examines adjectives and adjectival expressions used to describe characters in British children’s fiction. The focus is on diachronic variation, by comparing Victorian (19th-century) and contemporary (late 20th-century) children’s fiction, and on gender variation, by comparing the descriptions of female and male characters. READ MORE

  4. 2. Predikativadverbialet och dess numeruskongruens i finskan : [The predicative adverbial and its number agreement in Finnish]

    Author : Ulla Lundgren; Stockholms universitet; []
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  5. 3. Small Clauses in Swedish : Towards a Unified Account

    Author : Katarina Lundin; Svenska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ECM; object with infinitive; absolute construction; EPP; Agree; tense; matrix clause; periphrastic passive; light verbs; reflexive pronouns; participles; vP; TP; Small Clause; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Scandinavian languages and literature; Merge; chain formation; object predicative; CP;

    Abstract : In this thesis I offer a unified syntactic account of the small clauses involved in Swedish object-with-infinitive constructions (ECM), object predicative constructions and absolute constructions. In the present framework, this similarity is conceptually appealing and is also supported by empirical data. READ MORE

  6. 4. Localic Categories of Models and Categorical Aspects of Intuitionistic Ramified Type Theory

    Author : Johan Lindberg; Erik Palmgren; Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine; Henrik Forssell; Benno van den Berg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Topos theory; predicative topos theory; ramified type theory; type theory; localic groupoids; Mathematics; matematik;

    Abstract : This thesis contains three papers, all in the general area of categorical logic, together with an introductory part with some minor results and proofs of known results which does not appear to be (easily) available in the literature.In Papers I and II we investigate the formal system Intuitionistic Ramified Type Theory (IRTT), introduced by Erik Palmgren, as an approach to predicative topos theory. READ MORE

  7. 5. Adverbs : A typological study of a disputed category

    Author : Pernilla Hallonsten Halling; Bernhard Wälchli; Tomas Riad; Martin Haspelmath; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; adverbs; adjectives; parts of speech; prototypes; categorization; modification; constructions; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Abstract : The notion adverb is often treated as encompassing leftover items in a class that shows little consistency both within and ​across languages. Adverbs are less frequent than other parts of speech cross-linguistically, they seldom inflect, and they are rarely used as a source for derivation to other categories. READ MORE