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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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. ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnsons hjem Aulestad i Gausdal åpnet som nasjonalmuseum i 1935, finansiert med innsamlede midler etter en landsomfattende kampanje på 1920-tallet. Innsamlingsaksjonen ble støttet av kjente personer innenfor ...

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 ...

The article discusses ekphrases and the mediations of the pain of others in the poetry of Ghayath Almadhoun and Marie Silkeberg. One aspect that is explored is the relationship between poetry and visual media like film 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recent studies by Bastiaanse and colleagues found that time reference is selectively impaired in people with nonfluent agrammatic aphasia, with reference to the past being more difficult to process than reference to the ...

This article analyzes representations of privilege and social inequality in the science fiction TV series Äkta människor (Real Humans) (2012–2013), produced by Sweden’s national public TV broadcaster (SVT). Set in the near ...

The article analyzes Jan Vardøen’s House of Norway (2016) and Rune Denstad Langlo’s Welcome to Norway! (2016) as multicultural and multiracial film comedies that set out to ridicule and shame Norwegians at the height of ...

The article analyzes Annette K. Olesen’s Little Soldier (Lille Soldat, 2008), from the perspective of “white guilt” (or the “white man’s burden”) as it is thematized in the film. It furthermore critiques the film’s portrayal ...

Work in historical sociolinguistics can broadly be divided into quantitative work which examines population‐level trends in past language use, and qualitative work which documents and explains the usage of individuals or ...

This paper describes the range of strategies found in Äiwoo (a language of the Temotu subgroup of Oceanic) to mark a noun as having plural reference. Äiwoo lacks an inflectional plural, and most of the strategies typically ...

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. ...

Current findings from intervention in bilingual aphasia are inconclusive regarding the extent to which levels of language proficiency and degree of linguistic distance between treated and non-treated languages influence ...

Purpose: The present work investigated whether verbal working memory (WM) affects morphosyntactic production in configurations that do not involve or favor similarity-based interference and whether WM interacts with ...

Naturvendt lyrikk har vært gjenstand for økt oppmerksomhet i Skandinavia de siste årene. Etablering av et økokritisk felt som nettopp interesserer seg for naturen i litteraturen, har bidratt til dette. Denne artikkelen tar ...

We compare the use of prosodic prominence in English and French to convey focus. While previous studies have found these languages, and Germanic vs. Romance more generally, to differ in their use of prominence to encode ...

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 ...

What textual relations may be established between the two most successful writers of children’s literature in the USA and Norway during the 19th century – Louisa M. Alcott and Dikken Zwilgmeyer? The reception in Norway is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tradisjonelt og fortsatt er det slik at bærebjelken for elevenes dannelse i norsk skole ligger i norsk¬faget. I vår tid er dannelse ikke minst et spørsmål om global dannelse, det vil si dannelse som et svar på globale ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Multilingual practices of translanguaging – fluid, complex, and dynamic processes of using one's complete linguistic repertoire – have been increasingly embraced by researchers and educators in bilingual education. Applying ...

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 ...

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 ...

The article examines, and questions, the centering of the state as the primary language policy actor particularly in the context of Estonia. In responding to several paradigmatic shifts in the field of language policy and ...

This paper describes the different grammatical strategies to form polar questions (broadly including yes-no questions and alternative questions) in Javanese, an area that has not been fully documented before. Focusing on ...

The paper examines a surprising parallel in the development of the feminine gender in Oslo Norwegian on the one hand and Istro-Romanian (spoken in Croatia) on the other. In both cases, the feminine gender is lost on all ...

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 ...

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 ...

This paper investigates a metrolingual language object and creative place-making in Dumbo, Brooklyn within the era of late capitalism. It is an analysis of how two simple letters ‘O’ and ‘Y’, when put together create two ...

In the concluding episode of the Third Branch of the Mabinogi, the Welsh nobleman Manawydan takes the (pregnant) mouse that he has captured to the magically significant site Gorsedd Arberth and prepares to hang her for ...

After the restoration of independence in 1991, Estonia continued with a parallel school system with separate public schools operating for Russian- and Estonian-speaking children. Seen as a developmental ‘growing pains’ of ...

In this study we aim to investigate the naming skills and the strategies used to cope with naming problems in a bilingual (American-Norwegian) male with PPA across three different speech contexts (confrontation naming, ...

This article discusses the problems that arise in the encounter between an intact honour culture (Pakistani) and a weakened honour culture (Norwegian). In the novel Izzat (1996) honour performances are largely connected ...

Denne undersøkelsen har som mål å gi innsikt i produksjonen av østnorske ordmelodier hos internasjonale studenter med tysk som førstespråk (S2-talere) og hos norske førstespråksbrukere (S1-talere). Sju tyske studenter på ...

Runer brukes som symboler i politisk propaganda på ytterste høyrefløy. For eksempel identifiserer motstandsbevegelsen Nordfront seg med t-runen, Vigrid med R-runen (algiz), i likhet med amerikanske National Alliance, og ...

Background: In probable Alzheimer’s disease (AD) different memory systems, executive functioning, visuospatial recognition, and language are impaired. Regarding the latter, only a few studies have investigated morphosyntactic ...

This article portrays the coherence of ethics and the dichotomy honour/shame, and she shows how the fantastic in literature is highly relevant in exploring ethics in literature. Takle’s argument is supported by examples ...

This paper describes the work and methods used to compile monolingual Norwegian and Swedish academic word lists as well as a merged Norwegian-Swedish list. The resulting list is discussed with respect to similarities and ...

This paper describes parasynthetic compounds in Norwegian and questions some recent claims made in the literature about this kind of word formation. In particular, it will be argued that they are not marginal, but productive, ...

This article discusses Norwegian sentences such as Helge lar seg ikke stoppe ‘Helge lets REFL not stop’. The second verb raises a difficult question: It does not have passive morphology, but it seems to share properties ...

Artikkelen drøfter det ideologiske konfliktstoffet i Gert Nygårdshaugs mest kjente og omstridte roman. Mengele Zoo ble i 2007 kåret til «Folkets favoritt» og leses av tenåringer i mange norske skoler. Også i Frankrike er ...

Hvordan skjønner talere at en allergitablett er en tablett som forhindrer allergi, mens en sovetablett ikke forhindrer søvn? Bruker personer med afasi de samme strategiene som personer uten afasi når de tolker slike ...

The governmental initiative called the Compatriots Programme, which supports language tuition in Estonian schools and societies abroad, reveals an increased interest in developing intergenerational language transmission ...

Background: Verb retrieval is challenging for monolingual and multilingual speakers with aphasia. Previous research on bilingual aphasia shows equivocal results of cross-linguistic transfer and inhibition. Aims: This study ...

Elever og lærere bruker mye av skolehverdagen til å snakke om ulike temaer. Både elever og lærere innleder samtaleemner og utvikler dem videre, men når de snakker om fag, har de ulik rett til å styre samtalen, blant annet ...

The naive theory of properties states that for every condition there is a property instantiated by exactly the things which satisfy that condition. The naive theory of properties is inconsistent in classical logic, but ...

This paper shows how to conservatively extend theories formulated in non-classical logics such as the Logic of Paradox, the Strong Kleene Logic and relevant Logics with Skolem functions. Translations to and from the language ...

All words have inherent properties linked to their form, meaning and usage patterns affecting when they are acquired and how easily they are processed. As languages and cultures differ, words with equivalent meanings may ...

Whole word phonological patterns (templates) in utterances produced by children with 5p deletion syndrome are analysed, addressing four questions: (1) Are children with 5p deletion syndrome able to generalise over words? ...

Norsk Ordbok blei ferdigstilt tidleg i 2016, 50 år etter at første bandet kom ut. Etter ei stor satsing frå omkring tusenårsskiftet, kalla Norsk Ordbok 2014, blei verket sluttført litt seinare enn til Grunnlovsjubileet i ...

This paper reviews recent developments in the study of multilingualism and affect, with the focus on two active areas: affective processing and decision-making. The converging pattern of findings suggests that foreign (FL) ...

Avhandlingens tema er utviklingen fra det homogene dukketeater med skjulte dukkespillere til det heterogene figurteater med synlige skuespillere og figurer/dukker i interaksjon. Empirien er tilegnet gjennom retrospektive ...

The American Midwest is an area that stretches over huge distances. Yet it seems that the Norwegian language in this whole area has some similarities, particularly at the lexical level. Comparisons of three types of ...