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Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the word Participle.

2. 1. The Syntax of the Swedish Present Participle

   Author : Camilla Thurén; tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning danska och isländska Avdelningen för svenska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; adjunct; participial clause; internal structure; complex predicate; Swedish; syntax; present participle;

   Abstract : Abstract The Syntax of the Swedish Present Participle offers a generative analysis of the Swedish present participle with the central goal of accounting for its distribution and function. The analysis offered rests on three hypotheses: (i) Present participles are verbs, (ii) Present participles can appear in complex predicates, and (iii) Adjunct present participial clauses may be interpreted through Control, where Control is assumed to equal an Agree relation. READ MORE

4. 2. 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

5. 3. 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

6. 4. Preterite and Past Participle Forms in English 1680–1790 : Standardisation Processes in Public and Private Writing

   Author : Larisa Oldireva Gustafsson; Leena Kahlas-Tarkka; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Abstract : The present study surveys variation and standardisation processes in the use of preterite and past participle forms in English texts included in A Corpus of Public and Private Writing (1680–1790), PPW. Quantitative and qualitative changes in the varied spelling of -ED forms of regular verbs (e.g. READ MORE

7. 5. (De)composing the middle : A minimalist approach to middles in English and Swedish

   Author : Eva Klingvall; Engelska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; passive; argument structure; past participle; Distributed Morphology; root; agentivity; middle; genericity; disposition ascription; modification; grammatical features; verbal alternation;

   Abstract : This thesis is concerned with a particular type of generic sentence that is referred to as the ‘middle construction’ in the literature. The aim of the thesis is to offer a theoretical account of middles couched within the non-lexicalist framework of Distributed Morphology (see Halle & Marantz 1993 and subsequent work), and, more generally, within the Minimalist Program (see e. READ MORE