Search for dissertations about: "germanic"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 swedish dissertations containing the word germanic.
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1. Structures in Germanic Prosody : A diachronic study with special reference to the Nordic languages
Abstract : This study provides a reconstruction of the development of the Germanic stress and syllabification system (as reflected in Gothic and Proto-Nordic) up to the completion of the quantity shift in Late Old Swedish. By means of current prosodic theory it is established that a domain of two moras wordinitially is present at all stages of development, in Gothic, Old English and Proto-Nordic as well as in Modem Swedish. READ MORE
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2. Modality and Subordinators in the Germanic Languages and beyond
Abstract : This thesis argues that general subordinators, such as the Germanic THAT and IF, denote propositional modality. Propositional modality stands for the “speaker’s attitude to the truth-value or factual status of the proposition” (Palmer 2001:24) and is otherwise expressed by moods such as the indicative-subjunctive and epistemic-evidential modal markers. READ MORE
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3. Krig på avveckling : Sverige och tyska kriget 1633
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4. Verb complementation in Swedish and other Germanic languages : studies in comparative syntax
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5. On the sacral origin of the Germanic death penalties
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