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Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade ordet actionality.
1. Werden – ein Chamäleon der Sprache : Zum Werdegang von werden
Sammanfattning : The topic of this thesis is the evolutionary history of werden in German with reference to its four functions – as full verb, as copula and as auxiliary verb in combination with the past participle in the Vorgangspassiv and also in combination with the infinitive to denote future and, in some circumstances, epistemic modal events. On the basis of scrutiny of diachronic results and a discussion of views put forward in the synchronic literature and empirically corroborated by a detailed analysis of a corpus, it is argued that the unique position of werden in the German verb arena was made possible by its non-specified meaning of dynamic existence, by its medial, non-agentive diathesis and, crucially, by its additivity, and its actional and aspectual underdetermination. LÄS MER
2. 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
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
