Sökning: "modal verbs"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 10 avhandlingar innehållade orden modal verbs.

  1. 1. (De)coding Modality : The Case of Must, May, Måste and Kan

    Författare :Anna Wärnsby; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language and literature; semiotics; syntax; modal verbs; modality; English-Swedish Parallel Corpus; epistemic; deontic; dynamic; indeterminacy; Controllability; Transitivity; Data Mining; pragmatics; Engelska språk och litteratur ; semantics; Grammar; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik;

    Sammanfattning : This study investigates the mechanisms of (de)coding modality, focusing on the interpretation of utterances containing the modals must, may, måste, and kan. The main research question posed in this study is what enables the interlocutors to interpret modal expressions so that communicative goals are achieved. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Finite verbs in Ngarla (Pama-Nyungan, Ngayarta)

    Författare :Torbjörn Westerlund; Anju Saxena; Åke Viberg; Alan Dench; William McGregor; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ngarla; Pama-Nyungan; Ngayarta; Aboriginal Australians; grammar; verb; morphology; syntax; tense; aspect; mood; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis provides a description of finite verbs in the moribund Australian language Ngarla (Pama-Nyungan, Ngayarta). Ngarla has previously been spoken in the Pilbara region of northwestern Western Australia, and all the linguistic material used in the thesis has the late Ngarla elder Alexander (Nyapiri) Brown as its source. LÄS MER

  4. 3. ¿Opiniones, normas o pura necesidad? : La modalidad deóntica y la modalidad dinámica a través de deber y tener que

    Författare :Miriam Thegel; Fernando Bermúdez; Hans Kronning; José Luis Blas Arroyo; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; deontic modality; dynamic modality; Spanish modal verbs; subjectivity; intersubjectivity; source of the necessity; modalidad deóntica; modalidad dinámica; verbos modales; subjetividad; intersubjetividad; fuente de la necesidad; Romance Languages; Romanska språk;

    Sammanfattning : This study focuses on the notions of deontic and dynamic modality in Spanish and how they are expressed through the modal verbs deber ‘must’ and tener que ‘have to’. The analysis is based on a corpus of political debates from the European Parliament, conducted 2010‒2011 by Spanish MEPs. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Modalitet och förändring : En studie av må och kunna i fornsvenska

    Författare :Peter Andersson; Högskolan i Skövde; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modality; language; change; modals; root modality; epistemic modality; force dynamics; grammaticalization; degrammaticalization; unindirectionailty; Old Swedish; conditionals; cognitive semantics; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Humanities and Social sciences; Humaniora-samhällsvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the development of root and non-root meanings of modal verbs through an empirical study of the verbs må and kunna in Old Swedish. Modality is taken to refer domains in which possibility contrasts with necessity. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Pseudosamordningar i svenska : särskilt sådana med verben sitta, ligga och stå

    Författare :Ulrika Kvist Darnell; Östen Dahl; Åke Viberg; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; pseudosamordning; samordning; underordning; verb; svenska; semantik; Linguistics; Lingvistik; General Linguistics; allmän språkvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This is a study of pseudo-coordination in Swedish, a common phenomenon in Swedish and other Scandinavian languages, formally a regular verb (phrase) coordination [V1 CONJ V2] but with some special characteristics: the verb in V1 is a) taken from a restricted set of verbs; b) semantically weak; and c) typically contributes aspectual or modal properties to the construction as a whole. An example is Anton sitter och läser, lit. LÄS MER