This article provides an overview of the main facts and analytical problems that relate to verbal periphrases. The article is structured as follows. In §1 I provide an overview of the main criteria for being a periphrasis, and the constructions that it should be differentiated from. §2 is devoted to the nature of the auxiliary verb, and its limits with other types of verbs. In §3 I talk about the ...

This paper reports a case study on community-oriented public library programs in a metropolitan Texan city. A main purpose of the paper is to report the findings from this explorative case study on the relationship of a public library system with its communities from a community resilience perspective. The study is a part of a research project aiming at creating empirically-based knowledge on the ...

Artikkelen undersøker muligheten for å la Nord-Norge og Sápmi være utgangspunktet for poetologiske refleksjoner. Med utgangspunkt i kongrastenmellom skaperkraften i Guds ord og menneskespråket knytter den an til den sere Wittgesteins forestilling om hvordan vi blir språklige. Gjennom en modifisering av visse tolkninger av Wittgenstein argumenterer artikkelen for et nært, men komplekst forhold mellom ...

I mesteparten av Nasjonalmuseets nærmere tohundreårige historie har samiske forhold spilt en fraværende rolle. I 2018 sendte museet ut en pressemelding om at «Nasjonalmuseet styrker samlingen av samisk kunst», noe som kan ses som uttrykk for en vending i museets samlingshistorie og representasjonspraksis. Artikkelen forsøker å kontekstualisere utsagnene i pressemeldingen gjennom en undersøkelse av ...

Based on a comparative reading of the officially released version and the director’s cut of Francis Lawrence’s movie <i>I Am Legend</i> (2007a; 2007b), the present contribution interrogates possible connections between the political economy of film production and aesthetic form. Drawing upon theoretical frameworks such as Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model and Artz’ critical study of global ...

<i>Mainstream: Warum wir den Medien nicht mehr trauen</i> viser hvorfor en voksende avstand mellom borgere og elitene er problematisk for et demokratisk samfunn. En journalistikk som viser seg ute av stand til å kritisk følge elitedrevne prosesser og praksiser mister den sentrale vaktbikkjefunksjonen som man ofte uten videre ettertanke tildeler store medieaktører. <i>Krügers bok</i> kan sees som et ...

The Norwegian Archive, Library and Museum Authority (<i>ABM-utvikling – Statens senter for arkiv, bibliotek og museum</i>) existed between 2003 and 2010. This article raises the question of why ABM-utvikling was not continued as a cultural policy instrument for the LAM sector. The new body for LAM policy development was based on the notion of converging media expressions and institutions in the ...

In this article, we report the results of a large-scale population study based on the Latvian adaptation of Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) – a parental report tool aimed at mapping the lexical and grammatical development of children under the age of three. Two CDI forms are discussed: CDI I: ‘Words and Gestures’ (8–16 months), and CDI II: ‘Words and Sentences’ (17–36 months). This article ...

It is well known that grammatical gender systems may change historically. Previous research has documented loss of the feminine gender in several Norwegian dialects, including those spoken in Oslo and Tromsø (Lødrup in Maal og Minne 2:120–136, 2011; Rodina and Westergaard in J Ger Linguist 27(2):145–187 2015). In these dialects, the change is characterized by replacement of the feminine indefinite ...

Subjunctive clauses in Spanish are traditionally claimed to obey Concordantia Temporum (CT), an agreement in tense between the matrix and subjunctive clauses. Treating this phenomenon literally as agreement is problematic, so an analysis in which CT falls out from general principles of tense interpretation, as in Laca (2010a), is very attractive. Nevertheless, this analysis seems to make some <i>prima ...