Essays about: "past participle"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words past participle.

  1. 1. Contact-induced change and variation in Middle English morphology : A case study on get

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Åberg; [2021]
    Keywords : Language contact; Language change; Middle English; Old Norse; Cognitive linguistics; Old English.;

    Abstract : The present study explores the role of interlingual identification in contact between speakers of Old Norse and Old English. The study focuses on the word get as it occurred throughout a selection of texts in the Middle English period. READ MORE

  3. 2. Adverbial clauses in translation  : Translation of finite and non-finite (-ing, -ed and to-infinitive) adverbial clauses from English to Swedish in popular science

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för språk (SPR)

    Author : Caroline Johansson; [2020]
    Keywords : adverbial clauses; translation; explicitation;

    Abstract : This study investigates adverbial clauses in a translation of a popular science text from English to Swedish. The clauses investigated are both finite and non-finite adverbial clauses. The non-finite adverbial clauses are ing-clauses (present participle), ed-clauses (past participle) and to-infinitive clauses. READ MORE

  4. 3. ”It grew a day of expectation” : A diachronic corpus study on the evolution of the verb grow in British English

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Rosaleena Luokkala; [2019]
    Keywords : grow; labile verb; transitivity; corpus study; diachronic study;

    Abstract : English has an extraordinary number of labile verbs, that is, verbs that can be used both transitively with a causative sense and intransitively with an inchoative sense. This corpus-based study investigates the evolution of the verb grow from exclusively intransitive to labile in British English in the Late Modern English period. READ MORE

  5. 4. Irregular English verbs with regular variants in the past tense and/or the past participle : A corpus-based study of light, speed, and prove

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Tore Haglund; [2019]
    Keywords : Verb; morphology; regular; irregular; past; tense; participle; corpus; English;

    Abstract : About fifty out of approximately 250 irregular English verbs have regular alternatives in the past tense and/or the past participle. There are often marked preferences for using the irregular or the regular form of the verbs, influenced by several factors. READ MORE

  6. 5. The Use of Americanisms in British English, with a Specific Focus on Gotten: A Corpus Study

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska

    Author : Jennifer Melckersson; [2018]
    Keywords : Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This essay aims to, with the support of an extensive corpus study, investigate the use of gotten in British English. Gotten is an alternative past participle of get which occurs mainly in American English, but is British in origin. READ MORE