Essays about: "adverb"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the word adverb.

  1. 1. Modal auxiliaries in English and Swedish A contrastive study of English can/could, may/might, and Swedish kunna and få

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Gustav Landälv; [2024-01-22]
    Keywords : Modal auxiliaries; English; epistemic modality; dynamic modality; deontic modality; can; could; may; might; kan; kunde; får; fick;

    Abstract : The results suggest that English can and could, when expressing dynamic modality, are mainly translated as respectively kan and kunde. When omitted in the translation, the main verb with which they co occur is often a verb of perception, such as see, or a private verb involving a thought process, like understand or remember. READ MORE

  3. 2. Mood and Verbals in North Common Tulu

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Author : Emil Magnus Mannby; [2024]
    Keywords : Tulu; Dravidian languages; mood; inflection; morphology; finiteness;

    Abstract : In the Dravidian language Tulu, spoken in the south of present day India, in the states of Karnataka and Kerala, several verb forms exist which have hitherto been poorly described in the scientific literature. A set of these code different modal distinctions, and are thus labeled moods. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Grammaticalization of Adverb Just in Early Modern English

    University essay from Mittuniversitetet/Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Frida Johansson; [2022]
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  5. 4. Phasal adverbials in the Romance languages

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik

    Author : Mar Santamaría Vaquer; [2021]
    Keywords : phasal polarity; aspect; adverbs; Romance languages; fasal polaritet; aspekt; adverb; romanska språk;

    Abstract : This thesis studies the equivalents of the words already, still, not yet and no longer in the Romance languages. These concepts constitute an onomasiological domain located in the periphery of aspect that have come to be known as phasal polarity expressions. READ MORE

  6. 5. NOT YET-Constructions in the Swedish Skellefteå Dialect

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Avdelningen för allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Jill Zachrisson; [2020]
    Keywords : Nondum; Phasal Polarity; speaker expectations; Westrobothnian; Swedish;

    Abstract : Expressions such as not yet, already, still and no longer belong to a category called Phasal Polarity (Phasal Polarity), and express phase, polarity and speaker expectations. In European languages, these often appear as phasal adverbs. READ MORE