Blar i NTNU Open på forfatter "Westergaard, Marit"
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The acquisition of word order in L2 Norwegian: The case of subject and object shift
Anderssen, Merete; Bentzen, Kristine; Busterud, Guro; Dahl, Anne; Lundquist, Bjørn; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article reports on a syntactic acceptability judgement study of 59 adult L2/Ln learners of Norwegian and a group of native controls, studying subject and object shift. These constructions involve movement of (mainly) ... -
The asymmetric nature of V2: Evidence from learner languages
Westergaard, Marit; Lohndal, Terje; Alexiadou, Artemis (Chapter, 2019) -
The loss of feminine gender in Norwegian: a dialect comparison
Busterud, Guro; Lohndal, Terje; Rodina, Yulia; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)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 ... -
Universal linguistic hierarchies are not innately wired. Evidence from multiple adjectives
Leivada, Evelina; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Background. Linguists and psychologists have explained the remarkable similarities in the orderings of linguistic elements across languages by suggesting that our inborn ability for language makes available certain innately ... -
Variable V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language: An effect of crosslinguistic influence?
Westergaard, Marit; Lohndal, Terje; Lundquist, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper discusses possible attrition of verb second (V2) word order in Norwegian heritage language by investigating a corpus of spontaneous speech produced by 50 2nd–4th generation heritage speakers in North America. ... -
Variation across individuals and domains in Norwegian heritage language
Lundquist, Bjørn; Anderssen, Merete; Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper investigates spontaneous production from 50 speakers of Norwegian heritage language in the Corpus of American Nordic Speech and studies the interplay between four linguistic properties: possessives and double ... -
Variation and change in Norwegian wh-questions: The role of the complementizer som
Westergaard, Marit; Vangsnes, Øystein A; Lohndal, Terje (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)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 ... -
Verb Second in Norwegian: Variation and Acquisition
Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit; Vangsnes, Øystein A (Chapter, 2020)This chapter provides an overview of the micro-variation in Norwegian when it comes to Verb Second (V2)word order, both in the various dialects and in the two written standards. The variation is dependent on a number of ... -
Verb Second Word Order in Norwegian Heritage Language: Syntax and Pragmatics
Westergaard, Marit; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter, 2019) -
Word order variation in heritage languages: Subject shift and object shift in Norwegian
Anderssen, Merete; Westergaard, Marit (Chapter, 2020)This study investigates two word order phenomena in Norwegian heritage language spoken in the US, subject shift (SS) and object shift (OS). SS and OS occur in syntactic environments where (pronominal) subjects and objects ...