Sökning: "affectedness"
Hittade 5 avhandlingar innehållade ordet affectedness.
1. Transitivity in discourse : A comparison of Greek, Polish and Swedish
Sammanfattning : This work assumes that various linguistic forms in different languages are related to common cognitive functions and semantic properties. A cognitive function - presumably universal - is information transmission. LÄS MER
2. Passive voices : be-, get- and prepositional passives in recent American English
Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER
3. The Syntax of Past Participles. A Generative Study of Nonfinite Constructions in Ancient and Modern Italian
Sammanfattning : The purpose of this thesis is double. First, it will be shown that a number of problems of the syntax of ancient, literary Italian lend themselves readily to an analysis in terms of the Theory of Principles and Parameters. LÄS MER
4. Adnominal Possession and Ditransitives
Sammanfattning : This dissertation presents the findings of an investigation of adnominal possession and ditransitives on the basis of data from Modern Greek. The general thesis of the dissertation is that possessive DPs constitute nominal counterparts to ditransitive constructions. LÄS MER
5. Between Communication and Community : EU Constitution Making, a European Public Sphere and the (Un-)Likelihood of Transnational Debate
Sammanfattning : What kind of public sphere is possible in the European Union? Against the backdrop of debates on the transformation of democracy beyond the nation-state, this study explores daily newspapers’ role in providing forums for transnational debate in the presumed absence of an overarching European collective identity. It uses empirical means to reconsider the question of the supposed co-constitutiveness of the public sphere and political community. LÄS MER