Search for dissertations about: "converb"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word converb.
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1. The inceptive construction and associated topics in Amharic and related languages
Abstract : This thesis investigates the syntactic features, functions, and diachrony of a complex predicate called ‘the inceptive construction’ which is based on a grammaticalised use of the converbs ‘get up’, ‘pick up’, ‘grasp’, and ‘take’. The languages under investigation are Amharic, Argobba, Harari, Zay, and Selt’i. READ MORE
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2. A Corpus-Based Study on the Degrees of Lexicalization and Grammaticalization of Finnish Converbs
Abstract : This study attempts to define the degrees of lexicalization and grammaticalization of the Finnish converbs ending in Ten, TUA, TessA, TAkse, mAllA and -mAttA. The study is based on a corpus of Finnish newspaper texts from the 1990s. The approach is fundamentally functional-typological and cognitive. READ MORE