Sökning: "posture verbs"

Hittade 3 avhandlingar innehållade orden posture verbs.

  1. 1. Uno studio contrastivo svedese-italiano sui verbi svedesi stå, sitta e ligga : A Swedish-Italian Contrastive Study of the Swedish Verbs stå, sitta and ligga

    Författare :Kristina Svensson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish; Italian; posture verbs; corpus linguistics; contrastive linguistics; parallel corpus; translation corpus; translationese; overuse; underuse; actionality; grammaticalization;

    Sammanfattning : The posture verbs stå, sitta and ligga [Eng. equivalents to stand, to sit and to lie] are amongst the commonest verbs in the Swedish language. They are polysemous, and found in various contexts including, of course, descriptions of bodily position. They are also used, for example, as indicators of ongoing activity or to replace vara [Eng. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Les verbes de position suédois stå, sitta, ligga et leurs équivalents français : étude contrastive

    Författare :Pauli Kortteinen; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish; French; posture verbs; corpus linguistics; contrastive linguistics; parallel corpus; translation corpus; translationese; overuse; underuse; grammaticalisation; lexicalisation; language typology; cognitive linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : The Swedish posture verbs stå ‘stand’, sitta ‘sit’ and ligga ‘lie’ are used prototypically to refer to human beings in standing, sitting and lying positions. These polysemous verbs are components of the lexical profile of the Swedish language – they are verbs of high frequency and alongside their prototypical uses they also have many metaphorical, lexicalised and grammaticalised uses with no straightforward lexical equivalents in French. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Progressive constructions in Swedish

    Författare :Kristian Blensenius; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish; aspect; imperfective; progressive; pseudocoordination; finiteness; semantics; pluractionality; implicative verbs;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis aims to provide new insights into the semantic properties of some progressive constructions in Swedish and to provide better understanding of aspect in Swedish. The five included studies present analyses of previously understudied as well as more familiar progressive constructions, based on authentic language data. LÄS MER