Essays about: "Tense and aspect"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 21 essays containing the words Tense and aspect.

1. 16. Tense and aspect systems in Dardic languages : A comparative study

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Hanna Rönnqvist; [2013]
   Keywords : Tense; aspect; Dardic; Indo-Aryan; comparative study; Khowar; Palula; Gawri;

   Abstract : The languages belonging to the group commonly known as the “Dardic languages” are on some levels insufficiently researched and have barely been subject to any comparative research on their finer grammatical structures, such as their tense and aspect systems. This comparative study analyses three Dardic languages spoken in the central Dardic speaking area (Khowar, Gawri, Palula) in view of their tense and aspect system, to find out how similar the languages are in this respect. READ MORE

3. 17. Iamitives : Perfects in Southeast Asia and beyond

   University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Bruno Olsson; [2013]
   Keywords : aspect; tense; perfect; Southeast Asian languages;

   Abstract : This study explores grammatical markers with meanings similar to the English perfect tense and words like already, as found in numerous languages across the world, and perhaps especially in languages of Southeast Asia, with the aim of describing the main function of these markers. Such items have previously been treated as belonging to the same category as the perfects of European languages but are tentatively termed "iamitives" in this study (from Latin iam 'already') since they differ from perfects in many respects. READ MORE

4. 18. Selected Topics in the Grammar of Nalca

   University essay from Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

   Author : Erik Svärd; [2013]
   Keywords : grammar; Mek languages; Nalca; New Guinea; New Testament; Papuan languages; parallel text; grammatik; Irian Jaya; mek; nalca; Nya Guinea; Nya Testamentet; papuanska språk; parallelltext;

   Abstract : The present study analyzes a selection of topics in the grammar of Nalca (Mek language; Papua), with a focus on verbs and nominals. No published grammar or dictionary is available for Nalca, but a translation of the New Testament was used as a parallel text. READ MORE

5. 19. Exploring and Analysing the Difficulties When Learning and Teaching the Present Tense and the Present Progressive Aspect to Swedish Pupils

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

   Author : Melisa Yildirim; [2012-06-27]
   Keywords : present; tense; progressive; error analysis; Standard English;

   Abstract : Purpose: To explore the difficulties when learning the English present tense and the present progressive aspect and get information about the common errors made by Swedish learners of different grades. Method: A quantitative study of 41 pupils’ knowledge and use of the present tense and the present progressive aspect in a fill-in-the-blank test and thereafter, an error analysis of pupils’ collected data. READ MORE

6. 20. The perfective imperative in Japanese: A further analysis

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Japanska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

   Author : Axel Svahn; [2010]
   Keywords : deictic projection; imperative; Japanese; past tense; perfective aspect; -ta; -tari; Aspect; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : The present thesis is concerned with a descriptive analysis of a phenomenon in the Japanese language, the use as an imperative of two suffixes of tense and aspect, -ta and -tari. The use of the past tense form (or ta-form) as an imperative in modern Japanese has been touched upon by various scholars, but a detailed account of the construction, its diachrony, and its place in a cross-linguistic context has not previously been performed. READ MORE