Search for dissertations about: "Isländska"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 23 swedish dissertations containing the word Isländska.
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1. Modern Icelandic Word Formation
Abstract : Icelandic is known for its conservative word formation, largely involving native sources. The main focus of the present research is to describe which mechanisms are used in forming words in Modern Icelandic. Furthermore, a postulated additional category within Icelandic complexes, introduced here under the label compilations, is examined. READ MORE
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2. The Evaluability Hypothesis : The Syntax and Semantics of Polarity Item Licensing in Swedish
Abstract : This dissertation is concerned with the empirical and theoretical aspects of polarity item licensing in Swedish. I argue that polarity items are semantically sensitive to evaluability, a concept that refers to the possibility of accepting or rejecting a clause as true in a communicative exchange. Clauses are either evaluable or non-evaluable. READ MORE
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3. The Internal Structure of Noun Phrases in the Scandinavian Languages : A Comparative Study
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4. On the principles of word formation in Swedish
Abstract : My thesis is an attempt to give a minimalist account of word formation in Swedish. (See Chomsky (1993) and (1994).) In the main part of my thesis I demonstrate how the proposed system accounts for the central aspects of Swedish word formation. READ MORE
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5. Small Clauses in Swedish : Towards a Unified Account
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