Sökning: "tense variation"

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1. 1. 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

3. 2. Tense and aspect in Chichewa, Citumbuka and Cisena : A description and comparison of the tense-aspect systems in three southeastern Bantu languages

   Författare :Andrea Kiso; Östen Dahl; Eva Lindström; Bernd Heine; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Tense; aspect; Chichewa; Citumbuka; Cisena; Bantu; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This dissertation describes and compares the tense-aspect systems found in three southeastern Bantu languages, viz. Chichewa, Citumbuka and Cisena. LÄS MER

4. 3. Expressions of Future in Present-day English: A Corpus-based Approach

   Författare :Ylva Berglund; Merja Kytö; Michael Stubbs; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; association patterns; corpus linguistics; English; expressions of future; tense; variation; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket;

   Sammanfattning : This corpus-based study of the use of expressions of future in English has two aims: to examine how certain expressions of future are used in Present-day English, and to explore how electronic corpora can be exploited for linguistic study.The expressions focused on in this thesis are five auxiliary or semi-auxiliary verb phrases frequently discussed in studies of future reference in English: will, ’ll, shall, going to and gonna. LÄS MER

5. 4. Tense and Aspect in Caesar's Narrative

   Författare :Fredrik Oldsjö; Machtelt Bolkestein; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Classical philology - general; aspect; Aktionsart; situation type; tense; Classical Latin; historiographical narrative; epitomistic narrative; foreground and background; seriality; iconicity; information type; Caesar; Livy; Velleius Paterculus; Florus; Eutropius; Klassiska språk - allmänt; Classical philology; Klassiska språk; latin; Latin;

   Sammanfattning : This is a study of the function of tense, aspect, and Aktionsart/situation type in Caesar's historiographical narrative (Bellum Gallicum and Bellum civile). The extensive theoretical part discusses these semantic categories from a cross-linguistic perspective and analyzes their functions in Classical Latin. LÄS MER

7. 5. 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