Sökning: "prepositional passive"
Hittade 2 avhandlingar innehållade orden prepositional passive.
1. Passive voices : be-, get- and prepositional passives in recent American English
Sammanfattning : The aim of the thesis is to shed light on the use and development of passive voice in American English. Empirical, corpus methods are employed in order to examine the syntactic, semantic, and stylistic preferences of three English passive constructions across time and genre in American English. LÄS MER
2. Participles in Time. The Development of the Perfect Tense in Swedish
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