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  1. 6. Agreement with Collective Nouns in English

    Författare :Magnus Levin; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; markedness; Longman Spoken American Corpus; grammatical change; corpus; conventionalization; concord; conceptualization; collective nouns; British National Corpus; British English; BNC; Australian English; American English; agreement; Agreement Hierarchy; pronouns; English language and literature; Engelska språk och litteratur ; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; syntax; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik; agreement; English language; Engelsk språkvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns agreement with collective nouns in American, British and Australian English. It is based on material from newspaper corpora and spoken corpora. The findings suggest that dialectal, stylistic, diachronic, syntactic and semantic factors interact in the selection of singular and plural agreement. LÄS MER

  3. 7. Apokoinou in Swedish talk-in-interaction : A family of methods for grammatical construction and the resolving of local communicative projects

    Författare :Niklas Norén; Per Linell; Jan Anward; Auli Hakulinen; Linköpings universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; apokoinou; ethno-methods; dialogical grammar; utterance construction methods; syntax as process; prosody; grammatical constructions; communicative projects; Swedish talk-in-interaction; conversation analysis; interactional linguistics; apokoinou; etnometoder; dialogisk grammatik; metoder för yttrandekonstruktion; syntax som process; prosodi; samtalsgrammatiska konstruktioner; kommunikativa projekt; tal-i-interaktion; samtalsanalys; interaktionell lingvistik; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap;

    Sammanfattning : I den här avhandlingen undersöks den grammatiska samtalskonstruktionen apokoinou i svenskt samtalsspråk. I kontrast till traditioner av normativ grammatik och teoretiska perspektiv på språk, där apokoinou och besläktade fenomen har exkluderats från grammatisk beskrivning eller blivit behandlade som produkter av olika typer av misstag, är apokoinou här re-specificerad som en i högsta grad funktionell grammatisk resurs och metod för att åstadkomma lokala kommunikativa projekt i samtal. LÄS MER

  4. 8. Sociolinguistic, comparative and historical perspectives on Scandinavian gender: With focus on Jamtlandic

    Författare :Briana Van Epps; Allmän språkvetenskap; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammatical gender; Jamtlandic; Swedish dialects; dialectology; dialect loss; language variation and change; gender assignment; Scandinavian; gender variability; diachrony; Old Norse; Old Swedish; Swedish; Norwegian; Elfdalian;

    Sammanfattning : The present thesis investigates gender assignment in Jamtlandic from a sociolinguistic and historical/comparative perspective. Jamtlandic is a language variety spoken in northwestern Sweden in the province of Jämtland. It maintains a three-gender system, in contrast to Standard Swedish, which has a two-gender system. LÄS MER

  5. 9. Triangulating Perspectives on Lexical Replacement : From Predictive Statistical Models to Descriptive Color Linguistics

    Författare :Susanne Vejdemo; Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm; Bernhard Wälchli; Majid Asifa; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; semantics; lexical typology; semantic typology; historical linguistics; historical semantics; lexical replacement; lexical change; rate of lexical replacement; color; regression models; Swedish; English; German; Danish; Norwegian; Icelandic; method triangulation; Linguistics; lingvistik;

    Sammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to investigate lexical replacement processes from several complementary perspectives. It does so through three studies, each with a different scope and time depth. LÄS MER

  7. 10. (De)composing the middle : A minimalist approach to middles in English and Swedish

    Författare :Eva Klingvall; Engelska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; passive; argument structure; past participle; Distributed Morphology; root; agentivity; middle; genericity; disposition ascription; modification; grammatical features; verbal alternation;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is concerned with a particular type of generic sentence that is referred to as the ‘middle construction’ in the literature. The aim of the thesis is to offer a theoretical account of middles couched within the non-lexicalist framework of Distributed Morphology (see Halle & Marantz 1993 and subsequent work), and, more generally, within the Minimalist Program (see e. LÄS MER