Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Grimstad, Maren Berg"

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    • English-origin verbs in American Norwegian: A morphosyntactic analysis of mixed verbs 

      Grimstad, Maren Berg (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:271, Doctoral thesis, 2018)
      Sammendrag av avhandlingen English-origin verbs in American Norwegian: A morphosyntactic analysis of mixed verbs “Vi bare satt der og watch-a da”. Dette er ikke eksempel på ungdomsspråk, men sitat fra en 93 år gammel ...

    • 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 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 ...

    • The code-switching/borrowing debate: Evidence from English-origin verbs in American Norwegian 

      Grimstad, Maren Berg (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      The speech of bilinguals tends to contain occurrences of language mixing, and the mixed items are often single words or word-stems. The classification of such lone otherlanguage items as CODE-SWITCHES or BORROWINGS, and ...