This thesis is concerned with compositional definiteness (CD), a special type of definiteness marking found in Norwegian modified definite phrases. In these phrases, definiteness is marked with both a prenominal determiner ...

Eastern European migration to Portugal is a relatively recent yet significant phenomenon due to its impact on national legislation and discourses about language, citizenship and identity. Along with other migration movements ...

The Scandinavian Dialect Syntax project was a collaboration between ten research groups from all of the five Nordic countries lasting for a period of about ten years. Besides resulting in a large number of scientific papers ...

Reading a word activates morphologically related words in the mental lexicon. People with Alzheimer's disease (AD) or Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) often have difficulty retrieving words, though the source of this problem ...

In this article, we examine how parents explain their choices of transmitting certain languages to their children, a key element of family language policies (FLP), in light of their dynamic linguistic repertoires and ...

Norwegian allows an unergative verb to take an external DP/NP possess or with a body part noun, as in Hun tråkket ham på føttene ‘she stepped him on feet.DEF’. This construction is both similar to ...

This study examined Finnish teachers' (N = 820) beliefs related to multilingualism and teaching multilingual Finnish language learners. Teachers' beliefs were mainly positive. However, teachers did not always consider home ...

Uttrykket “svenske tilstander” har i løpet av de siste årene blitt tatt mer og mer i bruk i nyhetsartikler i norsk media. Målet med denne studien er å undersøke hvordan stereotypier og språkideologier (re)produseres i ...

Denne avhandlingen tar for seg det norske private hyttebokinnlegget. Materialet består av en rekke hyttebøker, intervjuer med hyttebokforvaltere og kontoer på det sosiale mediet Instagram, som har en hytteboklignende ...

Family spaces are considered deeply private environments—taking recording devices into the family home is thus usually not an easy task. And it is even harder to make speakers record themselves without the researcher ...

I denne masteroppgaven foretar jeg en komparativ analyse av Vi Børn (1890) av Dikken Zwilgmeyer og Intet (2000) av Janne Teller. Jeg analyserer den impliserte forfatteren i verkene for å kunne si noe om hvilke normer og ...

En analyse av de populærvitenskapelige verkene Lab Girl (Alt jeg vet om planter) og Stein på stein av Hope Jahren og Henrik Svensen, der fokuset er på selvbiografisk fremstilling og forskningsformidling

I denne masteravhandlingen vil jeg studere hvordan skogen og jungelen anses og anvendes av karakterene i Tormod Haugens Øglene kommer (1991) og Skriket fra jungelen – en filmroman (1989). Årsaken til at jeg har valgt verker ...

The study investigates code-switching by multilingual persons with dementia in two different speech contexts, picture naming tests and spontaneous conversation. It combines a psycholinguistic perspective on cognitive and ...

Denne masteroppgaven er en casestudie som undersøker hvordan digital teknologi endrer literacy-forståelsen i den videregående skolen. Undersøkelsen tok utgangspunkt i en videregående skole i Distrikts-Norge. Områder som ...

I denne masteravhandlingen gjør jeg en komparativ analyse av de fire norske litteraturhistoriene: Illustreret norsk literaturhistorie av Henrik Jæger (1896), A.H Winsnes’ femte bind av Norsk litteraturhistorie - Norges ...

I skrivene stund pågår det en debatt om at kvalitetskriterier og etiske retningslinjer er ønsket blant kritikere og forfattere i litterær sakprosa. Hva slags kriterier er det som vektlegges i en kåring av litterær ...

Edith Øberg forfatta 12 bøker i perioden 1916 – 1945, som alle fekk stor merksemd i mellomkrigstida. Øberg var ein betydingsfull forfattar og anerkjent av sine kollegaer og litteraturkritikarar. Likevel er Øberg i dag ein ...

Denne artikkelen handler om setninger som Ola lot være å synge. Det har vært sagt at la være representerer et tilfelle av restrukturering, reanalyse, leksikalisering eller grammatikalisering. Men det ser ikke ut til å ...

Minority language education initiatives often aim to resist dominant language regimes and to raise the social status of migrant or autochthonous minorities. We consider how participating children experience these alternative ...

Multilingual families and their language policies have attracted considerable attention in recent sociolinguistic work. Adding to this line of research, this article focuses on a case study of a transnational Polish family ...

The article identifies and describes conversational practices used by persons with dementia and their interlocutors to account for the former’s lack of knowledge in cases where information about their personal experiences ...

Artikkelen analyserer hvordan hovedpersonen Herdis’ jødiske familiebakgrunn framstilles i Torborg Nedreaas’ romaner Musikk fra en blå brønn (1960) og Ved neste nymåne (1971), og drøfter hva denne bakgrunnen og tidens ...

“I do not want to destroy the Norwegian society by introducing French.” French in narratives by Congolese migrants in Norway In this article, I explore the experiences with French of migrants from the Democratic Republic ...

Previous studies show that neural sensitivity to variability in synthetic speech, measured as change detection with the mismatch negativity (MMN), is similar across stimuli presentation paradigms that vary in duration and ...

Language assessment in Norwegian kindergartens - a pilot study of parents' and ECEC staff's reports on Norwegian-speaking three-year-olds using CDI III

Denne oppgava undersøker fenomenet skam i Per Olov Enquists sist utgitte roman Liknelseboken (2013). Hensikten med avhandlingen er å avdekke om det eksisterer skam i Liknelseboken, og i så tilfelle hvordan skammen kommer ...

A classical topic in the syntax of the mainland Scandinavian languages is so-called pancake clauses where there seemingly is disagreement between the subject and the predicative adjective, as in Pannekaker er godt ‘Pancakes(f ...

I denne oppgåva gjer eg ein økokritisk analyse av Kathleen Rani Hagens roman Grunnleggende plantediversitet (2018), og Erlend Loes roman Dyrene i Afrika (2018). Dei to romanane blir analyserte ut frå ein hypotese om at dei ...

Denne artikkelen er ein grann omtale og gjennomgang av det fyrste bandet i verket Norsk språkhistorie, som er etla til det nye oppslagsverket for emnet. To sider ved framgangsmåten i denne boka vert kritiserte. For det ...

I artikkelen blir viktig skriftkulturforsking i dei nordiske landa på 2000-talet presentert. Det blir særleg lagt vekt på skriftkulturell historisk forsking, skriftkulturell forsking retta mot utdanningssamfunnet og forsking ...

Studier har vist at objektive data dokumenteres i stor grad i pasientjournaler, mens det er varierende i hvilken grad og hvor detaljert subjektive data dokumenteres. Også i den studien vi presenterer i dette kapittelet, ...

Denne artikkelen gir en oversikt over norsk og svensk forskning på andrespråksskriving fra det siste tiåret. Tre hovedområder som har generert flere studier og nye perspektiver i de to landenes andrespråksforskning, er ...

Patterns of language impairment in multilingual speakers with post-stroke aphasia are diverse: in some cases the language deficits are parallel, that is, all languages are impaired relatively equally, whereas in other cases ...

Behavioural studies report differences in monolingual and bilingual infants’ non-native lexical tone perception [1]. The current study explored the degree to which infants’ linguistic experiences alter their pitch processing ...

In the period 1844–1852, several Norwegian plays were written that deal in various ways with Jews in Norwegian society in the era of the Jewish paragraph. In this article I investigate the political tendency in three of ...

Computers, smart-phones, tablets etc. expose most people to new cultural and artistic practices made possible through digital technologies. Among these practices and objects for scholarly research and analyses is literature ...

Emnet for denne MA-oppgaven er sosiolingvistisk medborgervitenskap, det vil si det å involvere lekfolk i det å gjøre sosiolingvistisk forskning (Svendsen, 2018). Jeg har valgt å gjennomføre en sosiolingvistisk medborgerstudie ...

Formålet med denne studien har vært å undersøke hva som skjer når man implementerer arbeid med vurderingskriterier i skriveopplæringen. Forskning viser at elever er vant til å få utdelt vurderingskriterier når de skal ...

This article documents the increasing use of the English curse word fuck worldwide, as well as its degree of adaption into the host language, its syntactic function, and its meaning and its strength as taboo. Comparing the ...

Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: I investigate variation and change in heritage languages, focusing on descendants of 19th- / early 20th-century North Germanic immigrant languages in America. I compare a ...

Det uformelle talespråket er noe av det som forandrer seg mest og raskest i språket. De mest aktive endringsagentene her er ungdommene. De bringer nye ord inn i språket i form av slang, og de utvider bruksmåten til ...

The article describes a conversational practice used by L2 speakers in acquiring new technical terms in the course of everyday workplace interaction on a construction site. In the process of searching for a word, the speaker ...

The bilingual executive advantage (BEA) hypothesis has attracted considerable research interest, but the findings are inconclusive. We addressed this issue in the domain of working memory (WM), as more complex WM tasks ...

Objective: The Oxford Cognitive Screen (OCS) is a screening tool for the assessment of poststroke deficits in attention, memory, praxis, language, and number processing. The goal of the present study was to develop a Russian ...

This introduction situates the topic of the special issue – interaction in multilingual workplaces – in a historical context of international trade relations. It goes on to outline the research context of contemporary ...

The objective of this paper is to explore the dynamics of citizen science (CS) in sociolinguistics or Citizen Sociolinguistics, i.e. the engagement of non-professionals in doing sociolinguistic research. Based on a CS-study ...

In Norwegian, unlike English, negative interrogatives are commonly used as requests for action. In addition, the negation adverb ikke can be placed either before or after a pronominal subject. The study explores pragmatic ...

I denne oppgaven undersøker jeg hvordan innlærere med serbisk som morsmål realiserer kategorien bestemthet i norsk mellomspråk og hvilke type avvik som eventuelt oppstår. Jeg stiller følgende spørsmål: Hvordan realiserer ...

Denne studien dreier seg om Cora Sandels lange novelle “Nina” (1949) og Agnes Ravatns roman Fugletribunalet (2013), som begge handler om erotisk aktive kvinner som etter en skandale i byen søker tilflukt hos en enslig mann ...

Artikkelen tar for seg bruk av finalpartikkelen "da" i interrogative anmodninger med modalverbet "kan". Fenomenet analyseres i naturlig forekommende samtaler og ses på fra et sosiokognitivt perspektiv som forbinder kognitivt ...

"Eg er i kronisk raseri over kritikken – og ‘gud’ hjelpe meg når raseriet går over til depresjon", skrev en opprørt Tor Jonsson i et brev til vennen og bladmannen Paul Breiehagen i desember 1948. Jonsson hadde da utgitt ...

Recent political and economic changes in Europe have resulted in an increased mobility of many central and eastern Europeans, including Polish nationals. This article examines how adolescent Poles living in Norway construct ...

This study examines two examples of grammatical variation in Norwegian inflection, strong versus weak verb conjugation and affixal versus periphrastic adjective comparison. The main claim is that the choice of variants is ...

Ifølge Språkrådet skal alle tekster fra det offentlige være skrevet i et korrekt, klart og brukertilpasset språk. Videre skal mottakerne av teksten kunne finne det de trenger, forstå det de finner, og kunne bruke det de ...

Haukeland afasi-screeningtest (HAST) er en mye brukt screeningtest for å avdekke språklige afatiske vansker, og spesielt den delen som omfatter screening av lette til moderate afatiske vansker blir mye brukt i klinisk ...

Family language policy (FLP) has been establishing itself as a field in the past decade. Yet, much of the scholarly debate around family multilingualism has remained within the boundaries imposed by Western-centric ...

When dealing with the place-names of a region, it is striking to see the great variety of words and terms found in the material. Any natural or manmade feature so to speak, any field of human activity may be represented. ...

In mid-thirteenth century, Norway emerged as the realm of a king with European ambitions. Hákon Hákonarson had become king at a young age with the earl Skúli Bárðarson as the real ruler, but by 1240 the earl was dead and ...

The main manuscript of Konungs skuggsjá, AM 243 b α fol, dated to the last quarter of the thirteenth century has generally been regarded in earlier scholarship as a royal manuscript, perhaps produced in direct relation to ...

Konungs skuggsjá stands out in Old Norse literature as an example of the speculum genre. Views differ when it comes to who the primary audience for Konungs skuggsjá was: Was it the king’s son(s) or the hirð, or was it ...

Previous studies on gender in Scandinavian heritage languages in America have looked at noun-phrase internal agreement. It has been shown that some heritage speakers have non-target gender agreement, but this has been ...

This paper discusses how verbal directional markers are used to encode stative spatial relations in the Oceanic language Äiwoo. It argues that the apparent reversal of directional meaning in stative expressions, where ‘up’ ...

In this article we give a brief summary of how Norwegian and Polish sentences are classified in the widely acknowledged grammar books. Therefore, we review the definitions of sentences in both languages, and compare the ...

The most influential approaches to reciprocals (Heim, Lasnik & May 1991; Dalrymple, Kanazawa, Kim, Mchombo & Peters 1998) involve a scoping operator, but there are good arguments by Murray (2008) and Dotlacil ˇ (2013) that ...

This article analyses how a professional caregiver uses touch as a key resource when instructing and guiding a person with Parkinson’s disease. Touch is shown to have both facilitating and controlling functions in the ...

The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the recognition speed of Finnish nominal base forms varies as a function of their paradigmatic complexity (stem allomorphy) or productivity status. Nikolaev et al. ...

Denne masteroppgåva forsøker å svare på kvifor me har slutta å lese klassiske verk. Enkelte forfattarar og verk, som trass i at dei var populære i samtida, er i dag av det breie publikum nesten gløymt. Eg tar utgangspunkt ...

For more than thirty years, the Nordic Society for Metrical Studies (NORDMETRIK) has arranged conferences across Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland, at fourteen different venues so far. The last installment of ...

Background: Language mixing in bilingual speakers with aphasia has been reported in a number of research studies, but the reasons for the mixing and whether it reflects typical or atypical behaviour has been a matter of ...

The conference theme of CAA2016 was “Exploring Oceans of Data”, hinting at the vast amount of digital data resulting from digitisation projects and from all kind of electronic measuring gadgets used to document excavations ...

Bokmål og nynorsk gir som skriftmål hver sin innfallsport til norsk språkbruk og skriftkultur. Enten en ser bokmål og nynorsk som to ulike skriftmål eller som to ulike skriftlige uttrykk for norsk talemål, så er de nærstående ...

Det hevdes ofte at modernismen startet i Norden. Sikkert er det i alle fall at et stort antall europeiske forfattere resiperte Det moderne gjennombruddets litteratur. For R.M. Rilke (1875-1926) var det J. P. Jacobsen ...

Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i den historiske fremstillingen av lov revi sjonene til Magnus Håkonsson (Lagabøte) på 1260- og 1270-tallet frem til Landsloven kom i 1274 og undersøker hvordan kildene til revisjonsprosessen ...

This study shows how multi-unit turns may be designed to facilitate incremental establishment of intersubjectivity in cases where understanding is at risk. In addressing L2 speakers, L1 speakers decompose their multi-unit ...

This paper investigates the gender system of 25 American Norwegian speakers by focusing on the indefinite article and personal pronouns referring to inanimates (PPI). New data collected by the present author are presented. ...

English is the only Germanic language known to have lost V2 word order in main clause declaratives. It has been proposed that the loss of V2 is caused by a preceding loss of morphologically expressed finiteness (M-finiteness) ...

Norwegian has a possessor with the preposition på 'on' which is used with body part nouns. It shares properties with the dative external possessor of e.g. German and French, but it differs from them in that it can be a ...

This study considers a set of terms, fet, gol, and éigem, for vocalizations that are associated with the figure known as Bríg or Brigit in several medieval Irish texts: Cath Maige Tuired, the prose dindshenchas on Loch ...

Denne avhandlinga utforsker hvordan nyere skandinaviske audiovisuelle fortellinger representerer opplevelsen av å være privilegert i en verden preget av global urettferdighet. Avhandlinga analyserer fire eksempler fra en ...

Neuroimaging studies of the reading process point to functionally distinct stages in word recognition. Yet, current understanding of the operations linked to those various stages is mainly descriptive in nature. Approaches ...

Beliggende 18 km nord for Lillehammer åpnet Aulestad som nasjonalmuseum i 1935, innkjøpt etter en landsomfattende innsamlingsaksjon på 1920-tallet. Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons hjem er et av landets eldste og mest komplette ...

The article discusses Daniel Dencik’s feature film Gold Coast (2015), about the last phase of Danish colonialism in today’s Ghana, as an example for recent representations of Danish colonial history. Combining historian ...

Research has shown that contoids (phonetically defined consonants) may provide more robust and reliable cues to syllable and word boundaries than vocoids (phonetically defined vowels). Recent studies of Danish, a language ...

Time reference, which has been found to be selectively impaired in agrammatic aphasia, is often interwoven with grammatical aspect. A recent study on Russian aphasia found that time reference and aspect interact: Past ...

This article examines, how agency is constructed by members of two transnational families living in Norway in biographically oriented interviews. We understand agency as realised on the intertwined levels of grammar and ...

This article presents the LIA treebank of transcribed spoken Norwegian dialects. It consists of dialect recordings made in the period between 1950--1990, which have been digitised, transcribed, and subsequently annotated ...

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This paper discusses the analysis of a particular class of morphemes in the Oceanic language Äiwoo, and argues that the difficulties in accounting for them in traditional terms such as nominalisation, compounding, relative ...