Artikler, rapporter og annet (språk og kultur): Recent submissions
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"... DET BESTE I DEN NORDNORSKE FORTELJARTRADISJONEN". Om Lars Bergs romaner – sammenliknet med Hamsuns
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)This article uses a regional perspective to compare the novels of Lars Berg with Knut Hamsun’s novels set in northern Norway. What characterizes the northern Norwegian storytelling tradition, and is it possible to define it? In order to close in on this concept, this article focuses on certain aspects of setting, including: fishery, trade, language, and character. -
¿Puede ser el sufijo -oso un elemento relacional?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)In this article we discuss whether the hypothesis that the suffix -oso is an abstract relational element –closer to adpositions than to adjectives– is plausible or not. This view would have the advantage that it would make possible an explanation of its semantic flexibility and the fact that it is used to derive a heterogeneous family of elements, but it also faces a number of apparent counterexamples ... -
Broad scope and narrow focus: On the contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic study of third language acquisition
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-06-25)Aims:<br> in this introduction we situate the seven articles in this special issue in terms of the connections between their themes and their individual contributions to the field of third language acquisition (L3A): new theoretical models, innovative methodologies, an epistemological commentary and new perspectives related to multilingual processing and cognitive function.<br> Approach:<br> we ... -
Counter-hegemonic commemorative play: marginalized pasts and the politics of memory in the digital game Assassin’s Creed: Freedom Cry
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-11-24)In this article, I argue that digital games hold the potential to influence processes of cultural memory related to past and contemporary forms of marginalization. By bringing cultural memory studies into dialogue with game studies, I account for the ways through which digital games and practices of play might influence historical discourses and memory politics pertaining to marginalized identities. ... -
Recent Semantic Changes for the Term "Digital"
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)The term digital originates from the Latin word for finger/counting and has for many years been used to denote discrete signals and information, as opposed to analog. Discrete representation is an important principle, not only in computers, but also for (printed) text, music scores and even our genes. Recently however, the use of the term has increased and the meaning expanded to include almost ... -
Seeing Disorientation: China Miéville’s The City & the City
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-01-06)Orientations revealed as false presumably lead to the need for reorientation. Outside this economy, can there be utopian unorientation or ambiguous post-orientation? The self comes into being in a moment of disorientation, as Althusser's famous scene of being hailed by a policeman on the street makes clear. Althusser represses this moment, but what if we allow for its accompanying self-reflexivity? ... -
Does historical linguistics need the Cognitive Commitment? Prosodic change in East Slavic
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)On the basis of a case study of the so-called jer shift in Slavic, I argue that the Cognitive Commitment is essential for an adequate analysis of language change. While the “social turn” and the “quantitative turn” open up important perspectives and provide new opportunities for cognitive historical linguistics, the Cognitive Commitment remains essential because it facilitates elegant and ... -
War/Game: Studying Relations Between Violent Conflict, Games, and Play
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2016-12)Games and war have always stood in a close relationship to one another. From the ancient Chinese Go, via various iterations of chess to contemporary digital simulation games, or from classical Roman gladiator battles, via martial-arts competitions to today’s first-person shooters, the skills employed and the structures limiting participants’ actions and perceptions point to a variety of equivalences ... -
Nanook of the North (USA, 1922/1947/1976/1998) and film exhibition in the classical silent era: A document unbounded?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)<b>Purpose</b> – The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion on whether more traditional documents like a film of the classical silent era can be discussed as an unbounded document. <b>Design/methodology/approach</b> – By taking Gérard Genette ’ s concept of the paratext as point of departure and focussing on the exhibition of Nanook of the North during the silent era, the ... -
Deconstructing the non-episodic readings of Spanish deverbal adjectives
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-03)The interpretation of an eventuality embedded in a deverbal adjective is typically non-episodic; specifically it is dispositional, habitual or modal. This article examines these readings based on a case study of three productive adjectivalizing suffixes in Spanish. It is proposed that the same structure can underlie these three non-episodic readings. Which is selected in each case is a function of ... -
Editorial: The Grammar of Multilingualism
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Playing Cultural Memory: Framing History in 'Call of Duty: Black Ops' and 'Czechoslovakia 38-89: Assassination'
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-03-21)The present article brings game studies into dialogue with cultural memory studies and argues for the significance of computer games for historical discourse and memory politics. Drawing upon the works of Robert Rosenstone and Astrid Erll, we develop concepts and theories from film studies and adapt them to respond to the media specificity of computer games. Through a critical reading of the first ... -
Degrammaticalization in North Saami: Development of adpositions, adverbs and a free lexical noun from inflectional and derivational suffixes
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2016-12-01)This article discusses degrammaticalization in North Saami. Globally, one of the best known examples of degrammaticalization is the development of the North Saami adposition and adverb haga ‘without’ from an earlier abessive case suffix. This article builds on earlier studies by examining haga in greater detail and by relating the development of haga to its cognates dagi and dagá in Lule Saami. The ... -
Minnet om ein soldat
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-04-03)I denne artikkelen vil eg med utgangspunkt i ei feministisk filmanalyse av The Dawns Here Are Quiet… (Rostotskij 1972) og Leningrad (Buravskij 2009) drøfte den kvinnelege soldatrolla i sovjetisk og post-sovjetisk film. Etter ein kort introduksjon av filmane fylgjer ei drøfting om minnekulturen desse er ein del av. Resten av artikkelen vil krinse kring utvalde sentrale tema frå filmane om moralsk ... -
From compound nouns to case marking: Prolatives in South Saami and Lule Saami
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2015)This article discusses the morphology, syntax and semantics of the previously underdescribed denominal formations in -raejkiem and -raejkien in present-day written South Saami, and their etymological and functional counterpart -rájge in Lule Saami. As the topic has been mostly described in occasional dictionary entries but largely ignored in grammatical descriptions, the present article provides ... -
On the structure and variation of ‘hace’ as a temporal expression
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)The goal of this article is to analyse a case of variation in Spanish. In most varieties, constructions of the form Hace dos días que (“it has been two days since”) reject nominal expressions like todo el día (“all the day”), hence *Hace todo el día que (lit. “it has been all the day that”). However, a particular variety of Argentinean Spanish allows it. This article proposes that in the non-Argentinean ... -
Ignora la copia: sobre el sincretismo parcial entre 'ser' e 'ir'
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-12-01)This article proposes a structural explanation of the fact that in the perfective form, the verb ser is identical to ir. It is argued that internally ir is built over the verb ser, and the element that distinguishes them semantically displaces to a high position, in such a way that the lower copy left behind it is ignored for the purposes of morphophonological materialisation. ... -
Information structure and its syntactic manifestation in Spanish: facts and proposals
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016)This article presents the main facts about how information structure is syntactically codified in Spanish, with particular attention to the syntax of topics and foci. These facts will be used to assess whether cartographic and minimalist approaches can, in their pure version, account precisely for this set of facts in a predictive way. We discuss the taxonomy of topics and foci, the evidence for ... -
A note on how and why 'state + aorist = achievement'
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2016-06)In syntactic and semantic studies, there is a debate about the proper definition of ‘achievement’. While some authors consider them pure punctual boundaries without any extension, others treat them as short accomplishments, and propose that they have a process component that happens to be instantaneous. The goal of this article is to discuss an empirical pattern whereby some stative ...