Search for dissertations about: "Old Swedish"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 590 swedish dissertations containing the words Old Swedish.

2. 1. Sociolinguistic, comparative and historical perspectives on Scandinavian gender: With focus on Jamtlandic

   Author : Briana Van Epps; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammatical gender; Jamtlandic; Swedish dialects; dialectology; dialect loss; language variation and change; gender assignment; Scandinavian; gender variability; diachrony; Old Norse; Old Swedish; Swedish; Norwegian; Elfdalian;

   Abstract : The present thesis investigates gender assignment in Jamtlandic from a sociolinguistic and historical/comparative perspective. Jamtlandic is a language variety spoken in northwestern Sweden in the province of Jämtland. It maintains a three-gender system, in contrast to Standard Swedish, which has a two-gender system. READ MORE

4. 2. A Swedish dilemma : Aging during the search for a national insurance, 1884-1913

   Author : Mark Magnuson; Christer Ahlberger; Klas Nyberg; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; demography; family; poor relief; old age; retirement; income; smallholders; History; Historia;

   Abstract : Non-wage holders made up a significant portion of Sweden’s population in 1900. Yet, there are surprisingly few studies covering their formative role in the universal coverage of Sweden’s Pension Act of 1913. READ MORE

5. 3. Old Swedish Business in New International Clothes : Case Studies on the Management of Strategic Resources in Foreign-Acquired Swedish R&D firms

   Author : Angelina Sundström; Jan Löwstedt; Esbjörn Segelod; Svante Schriber; Jim Andersén; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; industriell ekonomi och organisation; Industrial Economics and Organisations;

   Abstract : Which conditions are needed for research and development firms to stay competitive? Such firms must continually develop new products and processes if they are to provide their customers with value, and equal, if not exceed, the offerings their competitors provide. Firms that lack sufficient innovation and creativity risk losing customers, their reputation, and their position in corporate structures and in their industries. READ MORE

6. 4. 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

7. 5. Typical and atypical language development in Turkish-Swedish bilingual children aged 4–7

   Author : Buket Öztekin; Ute Bohnacker; Aylin Küntay; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; bilingualism; Turkish; Swedish; preschool children; MAIN; CLT; language input; vocabulary; macrostructure; language impairment; atypical language development;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the vocabulary and narrative macrostructure skills of 102 typically-developing (TD) 4- to 7-year-old Turkish-Swedish bilingual children (cross-sectional), the development of these skills over time from age 4 to 6 in a subgroup of 10 children (longitudinal), and six Turkish-Swedish children with a language impairment (LI) diagnosis (clinical). The children’s health, family and language backgrounds, their language use and input patterns are explored through parental questionnaires, family interviews, and interviews with teachers and speech-language pathologists. READ MORE