Sökning: "time and tense"

Visar resultat 1 - 5 av 47 avhandlingar innehållade orden time and tense.

1. 1. Incongruous tense in Swedish : Past and present tense use with deviant time reference

   Författare :Per Klang; Ulla Stroh-Wollin; Joakim Nivre; Therese Lindström Tiedemann; Uppsala universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; tense; time reference; aktionsarten; modality; evidentiality; mirativity; tense harmony; episodic and semantic memory; the historical present; point of view; direct speech; Swedish; Scandinavian Languages; Nordiska språk;

   Sammanfattning : This thesis deals with incongruous tense in Swedish. Incongruous tense refers to uses of the past tense for events that overlap or succeed the moment of speech, which is normally considered to apply to the present tense, and uses of the present tense for events that precede the moment of speech, which is normally considered to apply to the past tense. LÄS MER

3. 2. Aspect, evidentiality and tense in Mongolian : From Middle Mongol to Khalkha and Khorchin

   Författare :Benjamin Brosig; Östen Dahl; Elena Skribnik; Stockholms universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Middle Mongolian; Mongolian; Khalkha; Khorchin; tense; evidentiality; aspect; complex predicates; General Linguistics; allmän språkvetenskap;

   Sammanfattning : The present thesis consists of an introduction and the following papers:The aspect-evidentiality system of Middle Mongol. Ural-Altaic Studies, 13. (forthcoming)The tense-aspect system of Khorchin Mongolian. In: Pirkko Suihkonen & Lindsay Whaley (eds. LÄS MER

4. 3. Towards a semantics of linguistic time : exploring some basic time concepts with special reference to English and Krio

   Författare :Johan Nordlander; Umeå universitet; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English; Krio; distinction; tense; temporality; mood; modality; aspect; aspectuality; nucleus; dynamicity; verbal constituency; verbal situation; phase; stative; state; processive; process; eventive; event; telic; bounded; Kreolspråk; Sierra Leone; Krio språk ; syntax; Västafrika;

   Sammanfattning : Using English and the West-African creole language Krio as the objects of investigation, this study proposes an analysis in which verbs and the paradigms pertaining to verbs are conceived of as being the only direct carriers of linguistic time encoding. The fundamental assumption is that nominals encode substance, be it concrete or abstract, and that verbals encode abstract substance with time. LÄS MER

5. 4. Aspect, tense and mood : Context dependency and the marker LE in Mandarin Chinese

   Författare :Marita Ljungqvist; Kinesiska; []
   Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Chinese; Languages and literatures of South and South-East Asia; Kinesiska och språk och litteratur från Syd- och Sydostasien; pragmatics; marker; semantics; temporality; Relevance Theory; tense; mood; Mandarin Chinese; aspect;

   Sammanfattning : The grammatical marker LE in Mandarin Chinese can occur in two syntactic positions, either immediately following the verb or at the end of a sentence. Traditionally, it has been described as two homophonous but syntactically distinct morphemes, verbal LE and sentence-final LE. LÄS MER

7. 5. 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