• Germanic diminutives: a case study of a gap in Norwegian 

      Alexiadou, Artemis; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)
      It is well known that German and Dutch have productive diminutive morphology. What is much less discussed is the fact that several other Germanic languages do not have such productive morphology, notably the Scandinavian ...
    • Grammatical Gender in American Norwegian Heritage Language: Stability or Attrition? 

      Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      This paper investigates possible attrition/change in the gender system of Norwegian heritage language spoken in America. Based on data from 50 speakers in the Corpus of American Norwegian Speech (CANS), we show that the ...
    • Grammatical Gender: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change 

      Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This paper discusses grammatical gender in Norwegian by bringing together data from first language acquisition, Norwegian heritage language, and dialect change. In all these contexts, gender is often claimed to be a ...
    • Grammatisk hokjønn i trøndersk barnespråk: Ein korpusstudie 

      Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Det siste tiåret har det blitt forska mykje på grammatisk kjønn i Noreg, både på korleis barn lærer det og korleis det grammatiske kjønnssystemet er i endring. Basert på korpusdata ser Rodina & Westergaard (2013) på korleis ...
    • Heritage language acquisition: What it reveals and why it is important for formal linguistic theories 

      Lohndal, Terje; Rothman, Jason; Kupisch, Tanja; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper discusses the interplay between acquisition and theory construction. It endeavors to show how a more direct and crucially bi‐directional relationship between formal linguistic theory and the study of heritage ...
    • Hvor mange genus er det i Trondheims-dialekten? 

      Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Trondheims-dialekten har tradisjonelt tre grammatiske kjønn: hankjønn, hunkjønn, og intetkjønn. Denne artikkelen presenterer resultater fra to eksperimenter som viser at hunkjønn står svakere i denne dialekten enn tidligere ...
    • The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly 

      Lohndal, Terje; Putnam, Michael T. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Formal approaches to bi- and multilingual grammars rely on two important claims: (i) the grammatical architecture should be able to deal with mono- and bi-/multilingual data without any specific constraints for the latter, ...
    • Innganger til språkvitenskap. Teori, metode og faghistorie 

      Hårstad, Stian; Lohndal, Terje; Mæhlum, Brit Kirsten (Book, 2017)
    • Introduction 

      Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2017)
    • Investigating potential L3 cognate facilitation effects on L2 - A study of Spanish-English cognates in L1 speakers of Norwegian 

      Telstad, Siri (Master thesis, 2018)
      This study investigates the potential cognate facilitation effect from a third language (L3) onto a second language (L2). More specifically, it investigates whether L3 Spanish participants have a cognate facilitation effect ...
    • Investigating the universality of adjunct islands through formal acceptability experiments - A comparative study of English and Norwegian 

      Bondevik, Ingrid (Master thesis, 2018)
      Adjunct islands (i.e., extraction from adjoined clauses) are considered to be islands for movement across languages, and data from English generally serve as good examples of this constraint. Norwegian might provide an ...
    • Investigating variation in island effects: A case study of Norwegian extraction 

      Kush, Dave Whitney; Lohndal, Terje; Sprouse, Jonathan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      We present a series of large-scale formal acceptability judgment studies that explored Norwegian island phenomena in order to follow up on previous observations that speakers of Mainland Scandinavian languages like Norwegian ...
    • La topicalisation en français et en norvégien 

      Helland, Hans Petter; Nilsen, Christine Meklenborg; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      In this paper, structural and syntactic properties of left dislocation as topics in French and Norwegian are examined in a systematic manner. We establish a standard division of Hanging Topics and Left Dislocated Topics ...
    • Language mixing and exoskeletal theory: A case study of word-internal mixing in American Norwegian 

      Grimstad, Maren Berg; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      This paper discusses word-internal mixing in American Norwegian. The data show that the functional vocabulary is Norwegian whereas many of the lexical content items come from English. We argue that language mixing provides ...
    • Language mixing in American Norwegian noun phrases. An exoskeletal analysis of synchronic and diachronic patterns. 

      Riksem, Brita Ramsevik (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:7, Doctoral thesis, 2018)
      The overall objective of the current dissertation is to investigate the morphosyntax of noun phrases in the heritage language American Norwegian (AmNo) that show mixing between English and Norwegian. AmNo was spoken by ...
    • Language mixing within verbs and nouns in American Norwegian 

      Riksem, Brita Ramsevik; Grimstad, Maren Berg; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      This paper presents case-studies of language mixing within verbs and nouns in the heritage language American Norwegian, which refers to varieties spoken by Norwegian immigrants to the US and their descendants. The paper ...
    • Lexicalist vs. exoskeletal approaches to language mixing 

      Grimstad, Maren Berg; Riksem, Brita Ramsevik; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      This article presents empirical evidence that disfavors using highly lexicalist minimalist models, such as the one presented in Chomsky (1995), when analyzing language mixing. The data analyzed consist of English – Spanish ...
    • Modeling multilingual grammars: Constraints and predictions 

      Lohndal, Terje; Putnam, Michael T. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      We are grateful for the many thoughtful responses to our epistemological paper, ‘The importance of features and exponents: Dissolving Feature Reassembly’ (henceforth, L&P). It is impossible to do justice to all of the ...
    • The Multilingual Picture Database 

      Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni; Baciero, Ana; Antoniou, Kyriakos; Antoniou, Mark; Ataman, Esra; Baus, Cristina; Ben-Shachar, Michal; Can Caglar, Ozan; Chromý, Jan; Comesana, Montserrat; Filip, Maros; Filipovic Durdevic, Dusica; Gillon Dowens, Margaret; Hatzidaki, Anna; Januska, Jiri; Jusoh, Zuraini; Kanj, Rama; Kim, SayYoung; Kirkici, Bilal; Leminen, Alina; Lohndal, Terje; Yap, Ngee Thai; Renvall, Hanna; Rothman, Jason; Royle, Phaedra; Santesteban, Mikel; Sevilla, Yamila; Slioussar, Natalia; Vaughan-Evans, Awel; Wodniecka, Zofia; Wulff, Stefanie; Pliatsikas, Christos (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The growing interdisciplinary research field of psycholinguistics is in constant need of new and up-to-date tools which will allow researchers to answer complex questions, but also expand on languages other than English, ...
    • Neodavidsonianism in Semantics and Syntax 

      Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2019)