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1. 1. Passive voices : be-, get- and prepositional passives in recent American English

   Författare :Sarah Schwarz; Merja Kytö; Christer Geisler; Anne Curzan; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; passive voice; get-passive; prepositional passive; corpus linguistics; American English; historical syntax; adversativity; situation type; thematic role; affectedness; prescriptivism; colloquialization; grammaticalization; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the use and development of passive voice in American English. Empirical, corpus methods are employed in order to examine the syntactic, semantic, and stylistic preferences of three English passive constructions across time and genre in American English. LÄS MER

3. 2. A corpus-based contrastive study of the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish

   Författare :Anna-Lena Fredriksson; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; passive construction; active; middle; intransitive; contrastive study; cross-linguistic study; corpus-based; parallel corpus; translation; Swedish; English; network; transitivity; animacy; agent; patient; fiction; non-fiction; theme-rheme;

   Sammanfattning : The present study investigates the passive and related constructions in English and Swedish. It is a bi-directional study that uses empirical fiction and non-fiction material in the form of original texts and their translations from the English-Swedish Parallel Corpus. LÄS MER