Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur): Recent submissions
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Τhe primitives of the lexicon: Insights from aspect in idioms
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-14)This work discusses the primitives of the mental lexicon through exploring aspectual compositionality in VP idioms. A comparison between idiomatic VPs and their non-idiomatic counterparts is employed to show whether the determination of aspect in idioms is compositional in both the idiomatic and the non-idiomatic VPs. Aspectual mismatches across the two domains of interpretation are presented and a ... -
Resolving (DAT = ACC) ≠ GEN
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-12-14)The traditional notion of case is too coarse to distinguish between the English prepositional dative and the English shifted dative, the Spanish bare accusative and the Spanish “a” accusative, etc. I show that refining our typology of case to include such distinctions resolves a *ABA counterexample to Caha’s 2009 case hierarchy and I discuss where these new distinctions should be placed in the ... -
On the directionality of cross-linguistic effects in bidialectal bilingualism
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-15)This study explores the interpretation of null and overt object pronouns by Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) bidialectal bilinguals. Object pronouns are a particularly good domain to examine, given that, particularly with respect to null objects, the underlying syntax as well as the semantic and discourse constraints that regulate their distributions in the two varieties are ... -
The Locus Preservation Hypothesis: Shared Linguistic Profiles across Developmental Disorders and the Resilient Part of the Human Language Faculty
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-10-13)Grammatical markers are not uniformly impaired across speakers of different languages, even when speakers share a diagnosis and the marker in question is grammaticalized in a similar way in these languages. The aim of this work is to demarcate, from a cross-linguistic perspective, the linguistic phenotype of three genetically heterogeneous developmental disorders: specific language impairment, Down ... -
Cognitive Linguistics: A Neat Theory for Messy Data
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)We outline some recent highlights in the application of cognitive linguistic theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of Slavic languages. A principal strength of cognitive linguistics is the way it focuses our attention on the continuous nature of linguistic phenomena. Rather than positing rigid categories and strict definitions, cognitive linguistics addresses the messy realities ... -
Totalitarian politics and individual responsibility: Revising Hannah Arendt’s inner dialogue through the notion of confession in J. M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-05-10)Hannah Arendt’s writings concerning individual responsibility create an important – and under-examined – context for reading J. M. Coetzee’s oeuvre, particularly his novel Waiting for the Barbarians. For Arendt, when a society fails to offer ethical codes of conduct to follow, people should determine those codes by themselves, since morality concerns people in their individuality during totalitarian ... -
Seeing and Thinking Borders
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2015)The title of this chapter, seeing and thinking borders, can be read in three different ways. It might refer to, firstly, the obvious fact that I try to adequately see and think borders - to subject processes of bordering and their contingent results to critical scrutiny. Or, secondly, the title might indicate that the acts of seeing and thinking themselves border - that perception and cognition are ... -
Art Across Borders: Dislocating Artistic and Curatorial Practices in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-04-27)The present article investigates the role of artworks in processes of bordering in the Barents Euro-Arctic Region. Drawing upon a neo-formalist framework, it firstly analyses works that were exhibited during the X-Border Art Biennial to identify disruptive potentials vested in the artistic pieces’ formal properties, before it, secondly, addresses potential performance effects of these works and of ... -
Why neither the prefixes nor our arguments are empty
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Intersections: A Conclusion in the Form of a Glossary
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Imagining Northern Norway: Visual configurations of the North in the art of Kaare Espolin Johnson and Bjarne Holst.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)The formative processes of collective identity and belonging inspired Benedict Anderson to write his ground-breaking Imagined Communities (1983). His emphasis on imagination and sodality in these processes also resonates in contemporary artistic presentations of life in northern Norway. A rereading of Anderson’s thesis in relation to the arts in northern Norway, in particular the visual arts, ... -
The nature of nominal classification: the case of grammatical gender
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Variation and change in Norwegian wh-questions: The role of the complementizer som
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-18)In this paper, we consider variation in Verb Second (V2) word order in wh-questions across Norwegian dialects by investigating data from the Nordic Syntax Database (NSD), which consists of acceptability judgments collected at more than 100 locations in Norway. We trace the geographical distribution of the two main variables: phrasal vs. monosyllabic wh-elements (the latter argued to be heads) and ... -
And up she went – The moral vertical in Wings
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article is dedicated to the film Wings (1966) directed by the Soviet director Larisa Shepitko. With its story of a World War II veteran, Nadezhda Stepanovna Petrukhina, Wings makes for an interesting case when looking at women’s and veteran’s status in the Soviet society of the 1960’s, and morality and memory culture more generally speaking. But as Nadezhda Stepanovna is a former fighter pilot ... -
Ka korpuse fortæll? Om ordstilling i hv-spørsmål i norske dialekter
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2014)I standardspråklig norsk finnes en regel som gjerne blir kalt V2. Den krever at det finitte verbet alltid står på andreplass i setninga, som for eksempel i <I>Studentene drikker øl, Hva drikker studentene</I>? og <I>Vanligvis drikker studentene øl</I>. I denne artikkelen tar vi for oss et brudd på V2-regelen som er utbredt i mange norske dialekter, nemlig ikke-V2 i <I>hv</I>-spørsmål, slik som i ... -
Public space in the Soviet city: A spatial perspective on mass protests in Minsk
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017)In many capitals, the central public square is the place where people go en masse when they wish to voice their discontent. The squares used for such collective actions are diverse. Each square has its unique combination of symbols and history; they are used in different ways by the public; and they often have distinct physical characteristics. Yet, in social sciences, when determining what makes ... -
Middelalderens bibliotek på Trondenes
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2013)Preserved medieval books from the stone church at Trondenes in northern norway are investigated to illuminate distinct features of a book collection from the church. In particular, they testify to the use of early printed books (incunabula) in the late Middle Ages in norway. The discussion relates to chronology and the functions of the church. The functions considered are connected to liturgy, ... -
Forholdet mellom allmenn lingvistisk forskning og forskning på individuelle språk
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2017)En tradisjonell motsetning innenfor vitenskapen er den mellom teoretikeren og empirikeren. En teoretiker er primært interessert i teorier og hvordan disse er sammensatt. Empiri er bare interessant i den grad den kan kaste lys over teorien, det viktigste målet er å finne ut hvordan teorien er skrudd sammen. For empirikeren er bildet det motsatte: Hun er interessert i mest mulig kunnskap om data ... -
Youth blogging and serious illness
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015-12-15)In recent years, a growing number of young people who experience illness tend to blog about it. In this paper, we question whether and how illness blogs illustrate the intercommunicative aspect of blogging by bringing forth both the literary concept of the implied reader and the sociological concepts of empowerment and agency in the analysis. We argue that young people blogging about serious illness ... -
Formal Linguistic Approaches to Heritage Language Acquisition: Bridges for Pedagogically Oriented Research.
(Chapter; Bokkapittel; Peer reviewed, 2016)The goal of this chapter is to lay out the central themes of heritage language acquisition research adopting a formal/theoretical linguistic perspective. Specifically, we aim to provide a detailed discussion of the nature of heritage language grammars. In doing so, we will address the debates on how to explain heritage speaker competence differences from monolingual baselines and more. This ...