Search for dissertations about: "unaccusativity"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the word unaccusativity.

2. 1. Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense in Swedish

   Author : Ida Larsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian syntax; Swedish; language change; tense; aspect; perfect; participle; supine; resultative; unaccusativity; auxiliary selection;

   Abstract : This thesis concerns the syntactic-semantic development of the perfect tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. READ MORE