This thesis examines the use of posture verbs among students in upper secondary education. Posture verbs are difficult to differentiate between and have a wide semantic range. The aim of this study is to examine how often students studying Swedish as a second language (SSL) in upper secondary education use posture verbs in the production of texts in comparison to students studying Swedish. The research material for this study is comprised of two parts. The first part consists of 68 student texts, taken from the Swedish National Test 2015 in the courses of Swedish 1 and SSL 1. The second part consists of a questionnaire which requires an active choice of a posture verb by the participant. The study reveals that native speakers of Swedish use posture verbs twice as often as SSL-learners when writing. The study also reveals a small difference between the student groups concerning their use of posture verbs as opposed to copula sentences. This signifies an uncertainty surrounding the context in which these verbs are used.

Texte remanié de : Thèse de doctorat : Linguistique contrastive : Göteborgs Universitet : 2005. / Bibliogr. p. 199-207.

I denna studie diskuteras användningen av de intransitiva positionsverben stå, sitta och ligga, samt deras olika betydelser och användningsområden. Dessa verb kan användas för att beskriva kroppslig position och plats. Tidigare studier har undersökt deras användning i svenska (inklusive engelska, franska, tyska och finska) med fokus på vanliga användningar och mönster, prototyper, typer av subjekt och lokativa komplement, samt skillnader i användningen av intransitiva verb med olika typer av subjekt. En användning som intransitiva verb har i skandinaviska språk är att de kan uttrycka progressiv aspekt vilket kan förklaras utifrån det grammatiska fenomenet pseudokoordination. Syftet med denna undersökning är att undersöka de semantiska egenskaperna hos intransitiva positionsverb i de nordiska språken danska och svenska. Studien bygger på korpusdata från Sketch Engine för att kategorisera förekomster av de tre positionsverben i svenska och danska. Dessa baseras på taggar som beskriver användning av positionsverb, semantiska egenskaper av subjektet och inanimata subjektets orientering. Uppsatsen utmynnar i att beskriva användningen av positionsverben i svenska och danska. Vissa förekomster visade sig sakna semantiska egenskaper. De semantiska egenskaperna mellan svenska och danska gällande positionsverb visar inte en uppenbar skillnad. Vidare forskning kan eventuellt framhäva en möjlig skillnad / This study discusses the use of the intransitive posture verbs stand, sit and lie, as well as their different meanings and areas of usage. These verbs can be used to describe bodily position and location. Previous studies have investigated their use in Swedish (including English, French, German and Finnish) focusing on common uses and patterns, prototypes, types of subjects and locative complements, as well as differences in the use of intransitive verbs with different types of subjects. In Scandinavian languages, one usage of intransitive verbs is that they can express progressive aspect, which can be explained based on the grammatical phenomenon of pseudo-coordination. The purpose of this study is to investigate the semantic properties of intransitive posture verbs in the Nordic languages Danish and Swedish. The study is based on corpus data from Sketch Engine to categorise occurrences of the three positional verbs in Swedish and Danish. These are based on tags that describe the use of positional verbs, semantic properties of the subject, and the orientation of the inanimate subject. The essay results in describing the use of posture verbs in Swedish and Danish. Some occurrences turned out to lack semantic properties. The semantic properties between Swedish and Danish posture verbs do not show an obvious difference. Further research may highlight a possible difference.