Browsing Institutt for språk og litteratur by Author "Weir, Andrew"
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Object drop and article drop in reduced written register
Weir, Andrew (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This paper discusses object drop in English ‘reduced written register’ (RWR), such as recipes ( Haegeman 1987a , b , Massam & Roberge 1989 , Massam 1992 ) and diaries. Object drop differs from subject drop in RWR ( Haegeman ... -
Problematising Norwegian quantifiers
Maria Sofie Bonnevie-Svendsen Furuheim (Master thesis, 2020)Kvantorer, også kjent som mengdeord, er slik navngitt fordi de forteller om kvantiteten, eller mengden, av innholdet i dens påfølgende determinativfrase. En flytende kvantor, derimot, er plassert på en annet plass i ... -
Resultatives, goal PPs, and postverbal subjects: From Scotland to Belfast
Weir, Andrew (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 ... -
Sentential and possibly subsentential modification: the ambiguity of Collins conjunctions
Bogal-Allbritten, Elizabeth; Weir, Andrew (Chapter, 2017) -
Structurally ambiguous 'again' without lexical decomposition: a Function Composition approach
Weir, Andrew (Chapter, 2018) -
The Order of Adverbs: Comparing Cinque and Ernst
Forsmo, Markus Grimsgaard (Bachelor thesis, 2020)I en grunnleggende engelsk setningsoppbygging, må adverbet always valigvis komme før adverbet completely, med mindre setningsstrukturen har blitt endret gjennom syntaktisk bevegelse. Spørsmålet om hvordan å redegjøre for ... -
The Realisation of Auxiliaries in a Non-Standard Variety of English: An analysis of the optional and non-optional realisation of auxiliaries in African American English
Leirtrø, Rebekka Cha (Master thesis, 2023)Denne masteroppgaven søker å forstå grammatikken bak utelatte hjelpeverb i afrikansk amerikansk engelsk (AAE) ved å stille disse spørsmålene: Er hjelpeverb i AAE til stede på et av representasjonsnivåene? Om de er det, ... -
The Sound of Disney: A sociolinguistic analysis of the use of English accents in four animated films from the 2010s
Søraa, Ingrid (Master thesis, 2019)Accent can function as a cue for social categorization and stereotyping and the media is one of the main agents for this distribution. This study is a sociolinguistic analysis of the use of accents in four recent Disney ... -
What English VP Ellipsis Can Do, What Norwegian VP Ellipsis Can't, and Why - A Comparative Study of VP Ellipsis in English and Norwegian
Elman, Andrea Olafsen (Master thesis, 2018)This quantitative study compares the anaphoric phenomenon Verb Phrase Ellipsis (VPE) in English and Norwegian. The main aim of the thesis is to investigate and compare licensing conditions on VPE in these two languages. ... -
"You should consider other possibilities like" - A study of the widening function of the discourse markers like and liksom
Karlsen, Helene Røli (Master thesis, 2020)Denne masteravhandlingen studerer diskursmarkørene like i engelsk og liksom i norsk. Tidligere forskning viser at førstnevnte har blitt studert nøye siden 1980-tallet, mens liksom har fått mer oppmerksomhet siden begynnelsen ...