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The Syntax And Semantics Of Questions In Swedish, Elisabet Britt Engdahl
The Syntax And Semantics Of Questions In Swedish, Elisabet Britt Engdahl
Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014
This dissertation provides an explicit syntactic and semantic account for a reasonably large sample of question constructions in Swedish. Within generative grammar, the existence of non-local dependencies as in constituent questions has been taken as evidence for the need to postulate transformational rules in the grammar of natural languages. Recently a number of linguists have proposed ways of handling such dependencies without transformations. Until now, these proposals have been based on English. In this study, we investigate the possibility of extending non-transformational approaches to languages like Swedish where question formation differs from English in a significant way. In Swedish, more …
Keeping Alternative Institutions Alternative: A Comparative Study, Grant M. Ingle
Keeping Alternative Institutions Alternative: A Comparative Study, Grant M. Ingle
Doctoral Dissertations 1896 - February 2014
This research investigated the issue of keeping alternative institutions alternative both as an organizational problem of bureaucratization and as a research area with methodological complications. More specifically, the research addressed both sides of the issue by defining bureaucratization as gradual transformation of member control into conventional hierarchical control, and by employing an action-research model. To develop a coherent context for substantive and methodological questions, a detailed literature review identified several relevant areas of past research and commentary. In this review the Holleb and Abrams (1975) model of organizational development was examined in detail. Following consideration of workplace democratization and organizational …