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Grammatical Gender: Acquisition, Attrition, and Change
(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 ... -
Meaning before grammar: A review of ERP experiments on the neurodevelopmental origins of semantic processing
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)According to traditional linguistic theories, the construction of complex meanings relies firmly on syntactic structure-building operations. Recently, however, new models have been proposed in which semantics is viewed as ... -
The Concept of 'Halvemål' in Norwegian Linguistics – a Historiographical Account
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper explores the historical background and application of the concept halvemål in Norwegian linguistics, with particular regard to the disciplines of dialectology and onomasiology. The concept occurs in numerous ... -
Pakkeforløp for kreft: erfaringer blant helsepersonell og pasienter. Sluttrapport fra den forskningsbaserte evaluering av pakkeforløp for kreft
(SINTEF AS (ISBN starter med 978-82-14-);, Research report, 2021)Rapporten sammenfatter resultater fra prosjektet "Evaluering av pakkeforløp for kreft". Pakkeforløp for kreft ble innført i Norge i 2015 og skal sikre at pasienter opplever et godt organisert, helhetlig og forutsigbart ... -
John Opie’s Portrait of Charles Macklin and the Shakespeare Gallery
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The Effects of Attrition on Grammatical Gender: A View from North American Icelandic
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Heritage grammars have been argued to differ with respect to whether they are an instantiation of divergent attainment or attrition. Attrition and divergent attainment are not mutually exclusive and can even co-exist with ... -
Stable and vulnerable domains in Germanic Heritage Languages
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This paper provides an overview of Germanic languages as heritage languages, i.e. languages acquired naturalistically by children in parts of the world where these languages are not the majority language. Summarizing ... -
Conradian Claustrophobia: Gender, Confinement, Emancipation
(Journal article, 2017)This article discusses the ways in which space is gendered in a number of Conrad's fictions, with a particular focus on those spaces experienced as metaphorically or literally claustrophobic and stifling. First two shorter ... -
'The Evolution of "A Sentimental Journey, by a Lady" in The Lady's Magazine'
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article reassesses the long serial publication ‘A Sentimental Journey, by a Lady’ (1770-1777) and attempts to liberate it from Robert Mayo’s damning judgment in the early 1960s, which, together with problems of ... -
Resultatives, goal PPs, and postverbal subjects: From Scotland to Belfast
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This paper investigates postverbal imperative subjects (e.g., get you to school), ungrammatical in standard English but grammatical in certain contexts in dialects of Scottish and Belfast English. Henry (1995) reports that ... -
”Det her på Stedet almindelige Hverdagssprog […] forvilder Begynderen” – Om eit tidleg morsmålslæreverk som kjelde til kunnskap om språkforhold i Trondheim omkring 1800
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article discusses a teacher’s guide book that was published in Trondheim (Norway) in 1813 with the explicit purpose to help local pupils avoid ‘provincialisms’ in their writing. As an appendix to selected grammatical ... -
Introduction to special issue on morphosyntactic variation within the individual language user
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Partizipialkonstruktionen im Deutschen: eine syntaktisch-semantische Typologie
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Der vorliegende Aufsatz plädiert dafür, dass Partizipialkonstruktionen (PK) im Deutschen als Sätzchen (Engl. Small Clauses) zu betrachten sind, die sich im Hinblick auf ihre Distribution und interne Struktur in vier ... -
Formell og semantisk adjektivkongruens i norsk
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article provides an empirically based overview and discussion of types of adjectival agreement in attributive and predicative posisitions in Norwegian. In particular, we focus on two empirical facts that are quite ... -
Variation across individuals and domains in Norwegian heritage language
(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 ... -
The plausibility of wholesale vs. property-by-property transfer in L3 acquisition.
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Litteratur som erfaring. Modernisme og modernitet fra Obstfelder til Kjærstad
(Book, 2020)I denne boken tegner John Brumo et nytt bilde av den norske litterære modernismen. Brumo viser hvordan den norske modernismen vokste fram i en tid der det norske samfunnet gikk gjennom store endringer, og hvordan forfatterne ... -
From Gestuno Interpreting to International Sign Interpreting: Improved Accessibility?
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)In order to shape the future of our profession, I believe it is necessary for us to also take a critical look at both past and present practices. With that goal in mind, this commentary presents a case study of the sign ... -
Can humans simulate talking like other humans? Comparing simulated clients to real customers in service inquiries
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)How authentic are inquiry calls made by simulated clients, or ‘mystery shoppers’, to service organizations, when compared to real callers? We analysed 48 simulated and 63 real inquiry calls to different veterinary practices ... -
Hvor mange genus er det i Trondheims-dialekten?
(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 ...
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