Essays about: "complementizer"

Found 3 essays containing the word complementizer.

  1. 1. A comparison study of the JBXDMY construction inAmerican and British English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sebastian Sandström; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : The "Just Because X Doesn't Mean Y" (JBXDMY) construction initially emerged in the1850s as a spoken expression, typically employed to convey a negative implication to theinterlocutor. This syntactic structure is prevalent in both British and American English, withthe most frequently observed variant in the British corpora being "Just Because X doesn'tmean Y," and in the American corpora, "X That doesn't mean Y. READ MORE

  3. 2. Swedish relative clause extractions: The Small Clause Hypothesis

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för svenska, danska och isländska, tolkning i offentlig sektor och översättning; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Christiane Müller; [2014]
    Keywords : acceptability judgement test; extraction; island constraints; locality; relative clauses; small clauses; syntax; Swedish; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : On the basis of data from Swedish, this thesis investigates the Small Clause Hypothesis put forth by Kush et al. (2013). The hypothesis is suggested to account for the rare possibility of relative clause extraction, a phenomenon that poses a challenge for syntactic theories of locality. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Double Passive in Swedish : A case of creating raising verbs in the Scandinavian languages.

    University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Benny Söderberg; [2013]
    Keywords : Double Passive; Complex Passive; control; equi; raising; agent; infinitival complement; complementizer; LFG; dubbelpassiv; dubbel passiv; komplex passiv; kontrol; equi; raising; agent; infinitivkomplement; komplementerare; LFG;

    Abstract : The primary aim of this thesis is to map the syntactic and semantic nature, and the frequency of the Double Passive in Swedish. The results showed that the Double Passive is a control construction where the internal argument (OBJ) of the embedded verb is raised to subject of the s-passive matrix verb, and the verb of the infinitival complement co-occurs as an s-passive infinitive. READ MORE