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6. The Subject of the Verbal Gerund : A Study of Variation in English
Sammanfattning : This study deals with variation between possessive/genitive and objective/plain forms of the subject of the verbal gerund clause (VGC) in Present-day and Late Modern British English, as in Would you object to my [me] paying her a visit? and Poor timing of spoonfuls can lead to the child’s [the child] feeling frustrated. According to the traditional prescriptivist view, the possessive/genitive form is the preferred variant. LÄS MER
7. Phonological Quantity in Swedish Dialects : Typological Aspects, Phonetic Variation and Diachronic Change
Sammanfattning : This study investigates the realisation of phonological quantity in the dialects of Modern Swedish, based on a corpus containing recordings from 86 locations in Sweden and the Swedishspeaking parts of Finland. The corpus was recorded as part of the national SweDia project.The study is explorative in character. LÄS MER
8. Korten på bordet. Innehålls- och uttrycksmässig variation hos svenska idiom
Sammanfattning : The dissertation recounts how thirty-six Swedish idioms consisting of a verb and complement are used in contemporary newspaper material found in the Bank of Swedish Linguistic Reference Databank of Göteborg University. All the expressions occur at least once per million running words in my corpus of almost 33.7 million running words. LÄS MER
9. Återbesök i Eskilstuna : En undersökning av morfologisk variation och förändring i nutida talspråk
Sammanfattning : Real-time replications of empirical studies of language use are scarce. This study of language change in real time replicates an investigation of the social variation of spoken Swedish in the medium-sized town of Eskilstuna, using data collected 29 years after the original study. LÄS MER
10. Syntactic variation in English quantified noun phrases with all, whole, both and half
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