Sökning: "tense change"

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  1. 1. Temporal Subordinators and Clauses in Early Modern English : Stability and Change

    Författare :Göran Rönnerdal; Merja Kytö; Christer Geisler; Raymond Hickey; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :anteriority; aspect; complex subordinator; correlative subordinator; ellipsis; grammaticalization; modality; mood; negated subordinator; posteriority; primary meaning; repeated subordinator; replaced subordinator; secondary meaning; simple subordinator; simultaneity; temporal subordinator; tense; English; Engelska;

    Sammanfattning : My work is a corpus-based investigation of the use and development of temporal subordinators and clauses in Early Modern British English (EModE).  The focus of the project is on the forms, structure, meanings, and history of these subordinators and clauses. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Das präteritale Konzept im Frühneuhochdeutschen : Zur Distribution von Präteritum und präteritalem Perfekt in Flugschriften des 16. Jahrhunderts

    Författare :Camilla Amft; Stefan Mähl; Elvira Glaser; Mechthild Habermann; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Präteritumschwund; tense; present perfect; preterite; present perfect readings; tense change; tense variation; Early High German; pamphlets; Präteritumschwund; Perfektausweitung; Perfekt; Präteritum; Perfektlesarten; Tempus; Frühneuhochdeutsch; Flugschriften; German; Tyska;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis addresses the decline of the preterite tense, referred to as der Oberdeutsche Präteritumschwund (Upper German Preterite Loss), in favour of the present perfect tense. Its main focus is to examine and compare the distribution of the two tenses. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense in Swedish

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

    Sammanfattning : 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. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Stockholms stads tänkeböcker : Funktionell texthistoria 1476-1626

    Författare :Theresia Pettersson; Olle Josephson; Cecilia Falk; Harry Lönnroth; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swedish language history; language change; functional grammar; socio-historical linguistics; administrative literacy; register; discourse levels; discourse anaphora; tense; historical court-room protocols; Old Swedish; Early Modern Swedish; Scandinavian Languages; nordiska språk;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to shed light on language variation and language change in judicial protocols from the municipal court in Stockholm during the period 1476−1626. These documents provide a unique insight into late medieval and early modern use of written vernacular. LÄS MER

  7. 5. A View from Language : Growth of language in individuals and populations

    Författare :Christer Johansson; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavia; psycho-linguistics; past tense; linguistic ecology; language variation; language change; language acquisition; evolution; epidemics; emergence; diffusion; connectionism; area linguistics; case; simulation; synthesis.; Linguistics; Lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : The main question that this book tries to find answers to is what it is that makes language learnable. Language is one of the most complex human activities, but nearly 100% of humanity have learned a language in childhood. One answer could be that it is something in our brain that makes us learn language better than most other activities. LÄS MER