Sökning: "possessive"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 12 avhandlingar innehållade ordet possessive.

  1. 1. Investigating the Future of Finnish Congruency : Focus on Possessive Morphology

    Författare :Mariya Niendorf; Högskolan Dalarna; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Language variation and change;

    Sammanfattning : This study examines variation and change in the Finnish possessive morphology during the past few decades focusing on colloquial Helsinki Finnish. The variation in the morphological marking of possession is considered to be one of the most drastic changes in spoken Finnish (cf. Nuolijarvi 1986b). LÄS MER

  3. 2. The Subject of the Verbal Gerund : A Study of Variation in English

    Författare :Susanna Lyne; Merja Kytö; Hilde Hasselgård; Uppsala universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; BNC; British National Corpus; corpus linguistics; genitive; genre; gerund; ing-form; Late Modern English; linguistic variation; multivariate analysis; possessive; prescriptivism; Present-day English; English; Engelska;

    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

  4. 3. Nominal Compounds in Old Latvian Texts in the 16th and 17th Centuries

    Författare :Kristina Bukelskytė-Čepelė; Jenny Larsson; Peteris Vanags; Jurgis Pakerys; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; nominal compounds; compounding; Old Latvian; Lithuanian; Baltic languages; philology; historical linguistics; determinative compounds; possessive compounds; verbal governing compounds; copulative compounds; baltiska språk; Baltic Languages;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis investigates the system of compounding attested in the earliest written Latvian texts of the 16th and 17th centuries. The philological analysis presented in this work is the first systematic attempt to extensively treat compounds in Old Latvian. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Adnominal Possession and Ditransitives

    Författare :Mikko Kupula; Cecilia Falk; Eva Hedin; Melita Stavrou; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Modern Greek; minimalism; adnominal possession; ditransitive constructions; possessor raising; applicative constructions; phase extension; event variable; dative; locative; clitics; Modern Greek language; Nygrekiska; nygrekiska; Modern Greek;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation presents the findings of an investigation of adnominal possession and ditransitives on the basis of data from Modern Greek. The general thesis of the dissertation is that possessive DPs constitute nominal counterparts to ditransitive constructions. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense in Swedish

    Författare :Ida Larsson; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Scandinavian syntax; Swedish; language change; tense; aspect; perfect; participle; supine; resultative; unaccusativity; auxiliary selection;

    Sammanfattning : This thesis concerns the syntactic-semantic development of the perfect tense from a construction with possessive HAVE and a tenseless participial complement. Both participles and auxiliary are assumed to have internal syntactic structure, and the different perfect-type constructions can thus be related synchronically and diachronically to each other. LÄS MER