Search for dissertations about: "aspect"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 1663 swedish dissertations containing the word aspect.
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1. Second Language Acquisition of Mandarin Aspect Markers by Native Swedish Adults
Abstract : This experimental study investigates the second language acquisition of the four Mandarin aspect markers -le, -guo, -zhe, and zai- by native Swedish university students enrolled in Chinese language courses in Sweden. The main points of inquiry are acquisition order, the Aspect Hypothesis, the Distributional Bias Hypothesis, and the Prototype Model. READ MORE
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2. The Double Aspect : Gerald Murnane's Visual Poetics
Abstract : With its abundance of maps, place names, and landscapes, and with titles like Inland and Landscape with Landscape, Gerald Murnane's fiction exemplifies the dominance of land in Australian literature. Yet, Murnane's fiction differs from most "landscape fiction" in that it depicts an Australia that despite its history of exploration has not yet been fully discovered. READ MORE
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3. Tense and aspect in Chichewa, Citumbuka and Cisena : A description and comparison of the tense-aspect systems in three southeastern Bantu languages
Abstract : This dissertation describes and compares the tense-aspect systems found in three southeastern Bantu languages, viz. Chichewa, Citumbuka and Cisena. READ MORE
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4. Aspect, evidentiality and tense in Mongolian : From Middle Mongol to Khalkha and Khorchin
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
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5. Tense and Aspect in Caesar's Narrative
Abstract : This is a study of the function of tense, aspect, and Aktionsart/situation type in Caesar's historiographical narrative (Bellum Gallicum and Bellum civile). The extensive theoretical part discusses these semantic categories from a cross-linguistic perspective and analyzes their functions in Classical Latin. READ MORE