Search for dissertations about: "Contrastive reasons"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words Contrastive reasons.

  2. 1. Reasons, Blame, and Collective Harms

    Author : Mattias Gunnemyr; Metaphysics and Collectivity; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Skäl; Klander; Orsakssamband; Ineffektivitetsproblemet; Kausala bidrag; Kausalitet; Omärkbara skador; Moralisk tur; Kontrastiva skäl; Den törstige resenären; Reasons; Blameworthiness; Causation; The inefficacy problem; Helping; Causal contributions; Imperceptible harm; Non-threshold cases; Moral luck; process-connection; security-dependence; Contrastive reasons; The thirsty traveller;

    Abstract : Collective harm cases are situations in which things will become worse if enough acts of a certain kind are performed but no single act of the relevant kind will make a difference to the outcome. The inefficacy argument says that since one such act does not make a difference to the outcome, you have no outcome-related reason to refrain from acting in this way. READ MORE

  4. 2. Non-canonical case-marking on core arguments in Lithuanian : A historical and contrastive perspective

    Author : Valgerður Bjarnadóttir; Jenny Larsson; Peteris Vanags; Nicole Nau; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Case-marking; non-canonical subjects; core arguments; Lithuanian; Old Lithuanian; Lithuanian dialects; pain verbs; oblique anticausative; Icelandic; historical linguistics; contrastive linguistics; Construction grammar; Role and Reference grammar; Baltic Languages; baltiska språk;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a description and analysis of non-canonical case-marking of core arguments in Lithuanian. It consists of an introduction and six articles, providing historical and/or contrastive perspective to this issue. READ MORE

  5. 3. ”Completely Headless”. Modification of adjectives in Swedish advanced learners' English

    Author : Viktoria Börjesson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish advanced learners; written English; spoken English; degree modification; adjectives; modifiers; reinforcers; attenuators; collocation; learner corpora; learner English; formal register; informal speech; genre awareness; academic writing; comparative study; contrastive interlanguage analysis;

    Abstract : This is a corpus-based, empirical study, which investigates Swedish advanced learners’ written and spoken English with regard to modification of adjectives, both reinforcing (e.g. totally different, very nice) and attenuating (e.g. READ MORE