Search for dissertations about: "Active participles"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Active participles.

  2. 1. On the development of the present active participle in Bulgarian

    Author : Arne Hult; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Active participles; present active participle; past active participle 1; gerund; history of the Bulgarian language; Church Slavonic; Middle 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

  4. 2. Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense in Swedish

    Author : Ida Larsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian syntax; Swedish; language change; tense; aspect; perfect; participle; supine; resultative; unaccusativity; auxiliary selection;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns the syntactic-semantic development of the perfect tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. READ MORE