Sökning: "grammaticalization"

Visar resultat 16 - 20 av 30 avhandlingar innehållade ordet grammaticalization.

1. 16. Framtidsuttrycken i svenskans temporala system

   Författare :Lisa Holm; Svenska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; aktionsart; Nordiska språk språk och litteratur ; modality; grammaticalization; temporal adverbial; Scandinavian languages and literature; expressions for the future; aspect; present; tense; Swedish; auxiliary; tense system;

   Sammanfattning : The main aim of this study is to specify the contextual conditions that apply to the use of the three central expressions for the future in Swedish: the present form and the auxiliaries skola and komma. A tense suffix indicates a temporal domain and states that a mediating element, here called FIX, is placed in the indicated domain. LÄS MER

3. 17. Genus im Wandel : Studien zu Genus und Animatizität anhand von Personenbezeichnungen im heutigen Deutsch mit Kontrastierungen zum Schwedischen

   Författare :Bettina Jobin; Gunnar Magnusson; Hans-Olav Enger; Damaris Nübling; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agreement; animacy; contrastive linguistics; corpus linguistics; derivation; German; Swedish; grammatical gender; grammaticalization; inflectional morphology; language change; non-personal-agents; person reference; pronoun; Languages and linguistics; Språkvetenskap; Germanic languages; German;

   Sammanfattning : This study investigates, theoretically and empirically, the role of animacy in the development of gender systems. The theoretical background is a grammaticalisation approach to language change. LÄS MER

4. 18. Satsekvivalenta infinitivfraser i svenskan : En synkron och diakron undersökning

   Författare :Mikael Kalm; Ulla Stroh-Wollin; David Håkansson; Jan Terje Faarlund; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; control infinitive; ECM-infinitive; infinitive marker; diachronic syntax; non-finite complementation; non-finite syntax; word order; tense; finiteness; grammaticalization; Old Swedish; Early Modern Swedish; Nordiska språk; Scandinavian Languages;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates control infinitives and ECM-infinitives in the history of Swedish. Both constructions are non-finite, based on infinitives with or without complements, but share some properties and functions with finite subordinate clauses. LÄS MER

5. 19. The Integration of MILLION into the English System of Number Words : A Diachronic Study

   Författare :Donald MacQueen; Merja Kytö; Raymond Hickey; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; number-word universals; historical corpus linguistics; variationist study; American vs British English; newspapers; grammaticalization; iconicity; gradience; English language; Engelska språket; Linguistics; lingvistik;

   Sammanfattning : This corpus-based variationist study traces the history of the English number word MILLION from its first attested use in the 14th century, focusing on the diachronic shift in function from one of heading its noun phrase (NP), as in the obsolescent (Obs) construction three millions of citizens, to one of a post-determiner of its NP head, as in Present-day English (PdE) three million citizens. The authentic historical materials used include both numerous electronic linguistic corpora and, more innovatively, very-large-scale general collections available online, especially historical newspaper collections from the US and UK comprising tens of billions of words. LÄS MER

7. 20. Temporal Subordinators and Clauses in Early Modern English : Stability and Change

   Författare :Göran Rönnerdal; Merja Kytö; Christer Geisler; Raymond Hickey; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :anteriority; aspect; complex subordinator; correlative subordinator; ellipsis; grammaticalization; modality; mood; negated subordinator; posteriority; primary meaning; repeated subordinator; replaced subordinator; secondary meaning; simple subordinator; simultaneity; temporal subordinator; tense; English; Engelska;

   Sammanfattning : My work is a corpus-based investigation of the use and development of temporal subordinators and clauses in Early Modern British English (EModE).  The focus of the project is on the forms, structure, meanings, and history of these subordinators and clauses. LÄS MER