Search for dissertations about: "Past Participles"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 6 swedish dissertations containing the words Past Participles.

  2. 1. The Syntax of Past Participles. A Generative Study of Nonfinite Constructions in Ancient and Modern Italian

    Author : Verner Egerland; Italienska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Absolute Constructions; Word order and Participial Agreement in Italian; Scandinavian; and Romance; Affectedness Constraint; Medieval and Renaissance Italian; Spec head agreement and Case Theory; Antisymmetry; Past Participles; Null Objects; Italian language and literature; Italienska språk och litteratur ;

    Abstract : The purpose of this thesis is double. First, it will be shown that a number of problems of the syntax of ancient, literary Italian lend themselves readily to an analysis in terms of the Theory of Principles and Parameters. READ MORE

  4. 2. Small Clauses in Swedish : Towards a Unified Account

    Author : Katarina Lundin; Svenska; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; ECM; object with infinitive; absolute construction; EPP; Agree; tense; matrix clause; periphrastic passive; light verbs; reflexive pronouns; participles; vP; TP; Small Clause; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; Scandinavian languages and literature; Merge; chain formation; object predicative; CP;

    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

  5. 3. 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

  6. 4. Aspect, evidentiality and tense in Mongolian : From Middle Mongol to Khalkha and Khorchin

    Author : Benjamin Brosig; Östen Dahl; Elena Skribnik; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Middle Mongolian; Mongolian; Khalkha; Khorchin; tense; evidentiality; aspect; complex predicates; General Linguistics; allmän språkvetenskap;

    Abstract : The present thesis consists of an introduction and the following papers:The aspect-evidentiality system of Middle Mongol. Ural-Altaic Studies, 13. (forthcoming)The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian. In: Pirkko Suihkonen & Lindsay Whaley (eds. READ MORE

  7. 5. 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