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  1. 1. The Emergence of Conditional Subordinators in Swedish : A Study in Grammaticalization

    Författare :Henrik Rosenkvist; tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning danska och isländska Avdelningen för svenska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian languages and literature; conditionality; source determination; image schema; abstraction; bleaching; grammaticalization; reanalysis; language change; syntax; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; subordinator; conditional;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis is an empirical and theoretical study of the emergence of five Swedish conditional subordinators: utan, om, hvar, ifall and bara. The first changes occur in the 13th century, and the last in the 18th century. LÄS MER

  3. 2. A Corpus-Based Study on the Degrees of Lexicalization and Grammaticalization of Finnish Converbs

    Författare :Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi; Lars-Gunnar Larsson; Raimo Raag; Fred Karlsson; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Finno-Ugric languages - general; converb; non-finite verb form; lexicalization; grammaticalization; adposition; adverb; complex conjunction; deverbal adposition; prototype; frequency; Finnish; syntax; functional-typological linguistics; cognitive linguistics; newspaper language; Finsk-ugriska språk - allmänt; Finsk-ugriska språk; Finno-Ugric Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This study attempts to define the degrees of lexicalization and grammaticalization of the Finnish converbs ending in ­Ten, ­TUA, ­TessA, ­TAkse­, ­mAllA and -mAttA. The study is based on a corpus of Finnish newspaper texts from the 1990s. The approach is fundamentally functional-typological and cognitive. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Las construcciones adverbiales del tipo “delante mío” y sus condicionantes : Patrones probabilísticos, reflejos de gramaticalización y encadenamiento analógico en variedades diacrónicas y diatópicas del español

    Författare :Matti Marttinen Larsson; Laura Álvarez López; Miriam Bouzouita; José Luis Blas Arroyo; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; corpus linguistics; grammaticalization; probabilistic grammar; quantitative linguistics; usage-based linguistics; variationist linguistics; possession; analogy; romanska språk med inriktning mot spanska; Romance Languages; Specialisation in Spanish;

    Sammanfattning : The present thesis combines Labovian variationism, probabilistic grammar, and grammaticalization theory, and sets out to identify i) variable patterns underlying phenomena of morphosyntactic variation, ii) the probabilistic knowledge of grammar that speakers of Spanish possess and regulate, and iii) the conditioning factors, mechanisms and motivations that constrain morphosyntactic variation and change in Spanish diachronically and synchronically. The object of study consists in the morphosyntactic variation and change in Spanish locative adverbial constructions found at a) the level of the complement (e. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Grammar and grammaticalization in Manda: An analysis of the wider TAM domain in a Tanzanian Bantu language

    Författare :Rasmus Bernander; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Manda; Bantu; southern Tanzania; grammaticalization; grammar; linguistic description; reconstruction; tense-aspect-mood; modality; negation; auxiliary;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation offers a grammatical description and analysis of Manda (N.11), a Bantu language spoken along Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi) in southern Tanzania. The study focuses on the “wider” TAM domain, i.e. LÄS MER

  7. 5. The Multiple Functions of the Reflexive Prefix in Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu

    Författare :Lengson Ngwasi; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; reflexive; reciprocal; middle voice; grammaticalization; North Eastern Bantu;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation describes and analyses the multiple functions of the reflexive prefix in four North Eastern Bantu languages, Hehe, Sukuma, Nilamba, and Nyaturu, all spoken in Tanzania. Apart from encoding the reflexive meaning, the functions of the reflexive prefix that are dealt with in this study are reciprocal events and middle events. LÄS MER