Search for dissertations about: "get-passive"
Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the word get-passive.
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1. Passive voices : be-, get- and prepositional passives in recent American English
Abstract : The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the use and development of passive voice in American English. Empirical, corpus methods are employed in order to examine the syntactic, semantic, and stylistic preferences of three English passive constructions across time and genre in American English. READ MORE
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2. A corpus-based contrastive study of the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish
Abstract : The present study investigates the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish. It is a bi-directional study that uses empirical fiction and non-fiction material in the form of original texts and their translations from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. READ MORE