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1. 1. The history of the concept of grammaticalisation

   Författare :Therese Lindström; April McMahon; Andrew Linn; Nigel Vincent; Richard Steadman Jones; University of Sheffield; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; grammaticalisation; unidirectionaty; lexicalisation; history of linguistics; historical linguistics; grammatikalisering; unidirectionality; lexikalisering; lingvistikens historia; historisk lingvistik; Linguistics; Lingvistik; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : The present thesis discusses the history and meaning of the term and concept called grammaticalisation. Linguists usually ascribe the coinage of the term grammaticalisation to Antoine Meillet (1866-1936), who allegedly played a vital role in the history of grammaticalisation. LÄS MER

3. 2. A comparative study of Yucatec Maya Sign Languages

   Författare :Josefina Safar; Johanna Mesch; Olivier Le Guen; Victoria Nyst; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Yucatec Maya Sign Language; Yucatec Maya; Mexico; Mesoamerica; shared sign language; village sign language; language emergence; language evolution; sociolinguistic variation; gesture-sign interface; grammaticalisation; lexicalisation; cardinal numbers; size-and-shape specifiers; translanguaging; noun-verb distinction; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : In my dissertation, I focus on the documentation and comparison of indigenous sign languages in Yucatán, Mexico. I conducted fieldwork in four Yucatec Maya communities with a high incidence of deafness. LÄS MER

4. 3. Syntactic variation in English quantified noun phrases with all, whole, both and half

   Författare :Maria Estling; Graeme Kennedy; Växjö universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; syntactic variation; quantifiers; all; whole; both; half; linguistic factors; British English; American English; Australian English; grammaticalisation; totality; corpus; newspaper corpus; English language; Engelska språket;

   Sammanfattning : The overall aim of the present study is to investigate syntactic variation in certain Present-day English noun phrase types including the quantifiers all, whole, both and half (e.g. a half hour vs. half an hour). LÄS MER

5. 4. Basic Tendencies of Adjectival Accentological Development in Contemporary Russian

   Författare :Julia Larsson; Öst- och centraleuropakunskap; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Ryska språk och litteratur ; Russian language and literature; semantisation; grammaticalisation; pragmatic factor; explicit norm; language norm; Russian; stress variant; variation; accentology; Stress; accentuation; Grammar; semantics; semiotics; syntax; Grammatik; semantik; semiotik;

   Sammanfattning : The present doctoral thesis is a study of the problem of "variation" in relation to word stress in Russian adjectives, in both their short and long forms. The stress variation in adjectival forms is investigated from various viewpoints, the main of which is the revelation of the basic processes of stress reorganisation in these groups of words and the establishment of main tendencies of adjectival stress development in contemporary Russian. LÄS MER

7. 5. Le gérondif en français et les structures correspondantes en suédois : Étude contrastive

   Författare :Birgitta Hellqvist; Hans Kronning; Coco Norén; Hans-Petter Helland; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; French gerund; infinite form; converbs; simultaneity; contrastive analysis; grammaticalisation; gérondif; forme infinie; simultanéité; analyse contrastive; grammaticalisation; Romance Languages; Romanska språk;

   Sammanfattning : The present study deals with the French gerund and the Swedish syntactic correspondences in a parallel corpus. The analysis is based on 3,988 authentic instances of the gerund and their corresponding structures in Swedish texts. LÄS MER