Search for dissertations about: "subject-verb inversion"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words subject-verb inversion.

2. 1. Syntactic Variation in the Swedish of Adolescents in Multilingual Urban Settings : Subject-verb Order in Declaratives, Questions and Subordinate Clauses

   Author : Natalia Ganuza; Kari Fraurud; Paul Kerswill; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; syntactic variation; subject-verb inversion; non-inversion; language use in multilingual urban settings; multilingual youths; standard non-standard; Swedish; SLA; Bilingualism; Tvåspråkighet; tvåspråkighetsforskning; Bilingualism Research;

   Abstract : This thesis investigates the use of word order variation, in particular the variable use of subject-verb inversion and non-inversion in main declarative clauses, among adolescents in contemporary multilingual settings in Sweden. The use of non-inversion in contexts that in standard Swedish require inversion is sometimes claimed to be characteristic of varieties of Swedish spoken among adolescents in multilingual urban areas. READ MORE