Search for dissertations about: "subordinators"
Found 5 swedish dissertations containing the word 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. Temporal Subordinators and Clauses in Early Modern English : Stability and Change
Abstract : My work is a corpus-based investigation of the use and development of temporal subordinators and clauses in Early Modern British English (EModE). The focus of the project is on the forms, structure, meanings, and history of these subordinators and clauses. READ MORE
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3. 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
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4. Markov Chains, Renewal, Branching and Coalescent Processes : Four Topics in Probability Theory
Abstract : This thesis consists of four papers.In paper 1, we prove central limit theorems for Markov chains under (local) contraction conditions. As a corollary we obtain a central limit theorem for Markov chains associated with iterated function systems with contractive maps and place-dependent Dini-continuous probabilities. READ MORE
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5. Nelson-type Limits for α-Stable Lévy Processes
Abstract : Brownian motion has met growing interest in mathematics, physics and particularly in finance since it was introduced in the beginning of the twentieth century. Stochastic processes generalizing Brownian motion have influenced many research fields theoretically and practically. READ MORE