Institutt for språk og litteratur
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Diagnostic uncertainties, ethical tensions, and accounts of role-responsibilities in genetic counseling communication
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Diagnostic uncertainties are intricately associated with genomic testing—especially concerning new technologies such as exome sequencing—with test results being either inconclusive or generating secondary findings or showing ... -
Burial arrangements and conceptions about the afterlife in Old Norse literary sources from the 9th to the 14th century, with reference to the role of birds of prey played therein
(Chapter, 2020)Death and the dead were an important part of life in Viking Age Scandinavia (AD 793–1066). This study gives an overview of different literary sources that depict burial customs, the information they provide concerning ... -
How teachers use prosody to guide students towards an adequate answer
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)This paper focuses on the role prosodic features play in displaying evaluative stance in desk talks and oral exams in Norwegian secondary schools. We explore the extent to which teachers make available, to students, their ... -
"The fear of 'das Volk' - Karl Ove Knausgård's reactions to terrorism"
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Testing testing
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L3 acquisition and crosslinguistic influence as co-activation. Response to commentaries on the keynote “Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)I would first of all like to thank the many authors who have provided commentaries on my keynote article ‘Microvariation in multilingual situations: The importance of property-by-property acquisition’ (Westergaard, 2021a). ... -
Ulv engasjerer! Erfaringer med skjønnlitteratur i tverrfaglig arbeid på mellomtrinnet
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)Kan fortellinger om dyr skape større tverrfaglig engasjement og interesse blant elever på mellomtrinnet? Elever fra tre skoler har gjennomført et litteraturdidaktisk prosjekt om rovdyr. Elevene lyttet til Jacob Breda Bulls ... -
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
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
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