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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Hedging strategies, i.e. downtoning expressions or expressions of tentativeness or possibility, are ubiquitous in most, if not all, languages. However, hedging is often realised differently across languages, making such ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)The aim of the study is to show the role of the Italian expression devo dire in different contexts of use. The analysis is based on the approach elaborated in the studies of scholars belonging to the group of the French ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2019)The Verb-second (V2) phenomenon is one of the central issues of modern linguistic theory. This volume examines V2 from a micro-perspective, comparing various languages and periods. At the heart of the work presented here ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2012)Indefinites face competition at two levels: Presupposition and content. The antipresupposition hypothesis predicts that they signal the opposite of familiarity, or uniqueness, namely, novelty, or non-uniqueness. At the ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)The contemporary global circulation of literature resulting in the «multiple recontextualizations of the texts» on the one hand «un- dermines the previously sacrosanct monopoly of methodological nationalism in literary ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Drawing on diachronic data from the Corpus of Historical American English (COHA), this paper starts by testing the initial hypothesis that the resultative ADJ enough that construction is on the increase. One complicating ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / SubmittedVersion, 2017)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Multistability refers to those moments in a narrative when readers are made aware of two mutually exclusive possibilities, conceived as an analogy to the visual illusion of the duck-rabbit, which can be seen either as a ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)The present study looks at adverb placement in expert writing and in first-language and second-language novice spoken and written production. The extent to which first-language (L1) transfer is still present in advanced ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper considers the placement of adverbial clauses in English and Norwegian with regard to their form, meaning, information status and semantic relation to the matrix clause proposition. The study is based on comparable ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2019)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)Denne artikkelen tar for seg Agnes M. Wergelands Amerika og andre digte (1912), en glemt, men bemerkelsesverdig utgivelse, som skildrer Amerika med immigrantens blikk. Den første delen etablerer en kulturhistorisk og ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2008)The paper shows how the semantically underspecified imperfective aspect in Russian becomes associated with counterfactual complete events in specific contexts, notably in chess annotations (Restan 1989), while the perfective ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2018)The Arctic is an imagined space as much as a geographical place; our ideas and understanding of the region are based both in the fictional and the factual. Aritha van Herk’s Places Far From Ellesmere (1990) combines multiple ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 1998)In the communist period, the Soviet republics could be regarded as a kind of pseudo-states or proto-states, which had some of the trappings of true states, but lacked essential elements such as control of their own territory ...