Browsing Institutt for språk og litteratur by Author "Weir, Andrew"
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A comparative Exploration of Negative Concord in Dialects of English and Scandinavian: Investigating the Susceptibility of Language Varieties to the Development of Negative Concord.
Hagerup Hundseth, Magnus. (Master thesis, 2023)Denne tesen tar et nærmere blikk inn i hvordan negativt samsvar, fenomenet hvor flere negative elementer semantisk negerer en setning bare én gang, kan bli sett fra et komparativt perspektiv mellom ikke-standard engelske ... -
A comparative investigation of ‘Tough movement’ in Norwegian and English
Nybøle, Ole-Martin Sandvik (Master thesis, 2024)The overall purpose of this thesis is to provide a descriptive analysis of the Tough-Movement construction which is illustrated by the following sentence pairs: It is tough to paint the fence – The fence is tough to paint. ... -
Antecedentless fragments: a middle road between sententialism and nonsententialism
Weir, Andrew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)This article considers discourse-initial fragments such as 'A coffee, please'. The article argues against "sententialist" analyses of such fragments which propose that they are elliptical for fully-fledged syntactic ... -
Argument Structure Alternations and Semantic Meaning Can Norwegian L2 speakers of English differentiate between the subtle meaning behind the different alternations?
Saleh, Sara (Bachelor thesis, 2023)I denne avhandlingen undersøkes det om norske med engelsk som fremmedspråk kan fortelle om det er noe semantisk forskjell i vekslling i argumentstrukturer i engelsk. Dataen ble samlet inn fra 83 respondenter gjennom en ... -
Attributive Adjective Ordering: A Comparison of Akan And English
Oteng, Antonia Abena (Master thesis, 2018)When multiple adjectival modifiers occur in the English Noun phrase, speakers of the language have an intuitive idea of how they are to be sequenced. Linguists such as Hetzron (1978), Dixon (1982), Scott (2002), Sproat and ... -
But write what?
Weir, Andrew (Chapter, 2017)One is sitting in one’s office, contemplating the snowy fields outside, when an email drops into your inbox inquiring if you would be willing to write a squib for a festschrift for Kyle. ‘Of course!’ one thinks. Such ... -
CAN NEGATIVE CONCORD ALONE PROVE AAVE SPEAKERS BILINGUAL?
Boyaci, Servan (Bachelor thesis, 2021)The goal with the thesis is to showcase that negative concord (NC) is systematic, with data from music and entertainment in which NC in African American Vernacular English (AAVE) occurs, and use them to show that AAVE is ... -
Cointensional questions, fragment answers, and structured meanings
Weir, Andrew (Chapter, 2018)I discuss ‘cointensional questions’, questions which appear to have the same sense as each other, e.g. how many fives ten contains and how many times ten contains five. Fragment answers are sensitive to the distinction in ... -
DP-be-CP constructions and the licensing of clausal ellipsis
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Eliminating adjunct-specific conditions on movement: A case study of finite adjunct clauses in Norwegian
Bondevik, Ingrid (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2024:160, Doctoral thesis, 2024)English summary The dissertation investigates variation in syntactic constraints focusing on extraction from adjunct clauses (i.e., adjunct islands) in Norwegian. The overall aim of the dissertation is to ascertain ... -
English infixation in Norwegian L2 speakers
Hagen, Roy Andreas (Master thesis, 2021)Denne masteroppgaven undersøker om Norske L2 Engelsk brukere kan bedømme ekspletiv infiksering, banneord i andre ord, som den naturlige fan-fucking-tastic og den unaturlige fa-fuckin-ntastic. Flere forfattere har forsøkt ... -
Fragments and left-edge ellipsis: The division of labour between syntax, semantics, and prosody
Weir, Andrew (Chapter, 2022)This chapter provides a unified treatment of fragment ellipsis and left-edge ellipsis in English. Both processes are argued to be cases of ellipsis at the syntax–prosody interface, very late in the derivation. A formalization ... -
"He is in (the) jail" - A comparative study of bare singular count nouns in British English and Scottish English
Larsen, Frida Frøseth (Master thesis, 2018)In the DP hypothesis a problem arises because of bare singular count nouns; do they have a determiner or not? John went to school, Jill is at hospital. Their solution to this problem is the null determiner hypothesis, which ... -
[Here are] problems for ellipsis
Iversen, Sigurd Farstad (Bachelor thesis, 2021)Denne bacheloroppgåva omhandlar frasar ("nonsententials") som 'Freedom for Navalny' og 'A coffee for me (please)', og påstanden at slike utsagn inneheld meir syntaktisk materiale enn kva som kan sjåast på overflata. Påstanden ... -
Incremental prediction in long-distance dependencies: Predictive mechanisms during the processing of cataphors.
Giskes, Anna (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2023:10, Doctoral thesis, 2023)Norsk sammendrag Når vi leser eller hører språk er tolkingen begrenset av den lineære rekkefølgen som språk åpenbares i. Denne rekkefølgen er ikke nødvendigvis den ideelle for rask tolking av setninger: tolkingen av et ... -
Introduction to special issue on morphosyntactic variation within the individual language user
Eide, Kristin Melum; Weir, Andrew (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020) -
Investigating Morphological Decomposition of Established and Novel Compound Nouns in L1 English Speakers and Norwegian L2 English Speakers - A masked Lexical Decision Task study
Ofstad, Eirik (Master thesis, 2019)Abstract Through a masked Lexical Decision Task experiment, the current thesis finds evidence for a sublexical morphological decomposition of established orthographically contiguous compound nouns (such as |toothbrush|) ... -
Making Sense of Language Shift in 19th Century Scotland: Politics, Education and Migration
Holmeset, Merethe (Master thesis, 2018)This master`s thesis uses the 1872 Education (Scotland) Act as a focal point to discuss the role of direct political actions in language shift in Scotland. Scholars have not discussed the influence of political actions in ... -
"Murder Suspect Seen on Video" A syntactic analysis of the omitted verb be in headlines
Kibsgaard, Martine Karin Marie (Bachelor thesis, 2019) -
Negative fragment answers
Weir, Andrew (Chapter, 2020)This chapter discusses the interaction of negation with fragment answers. The ability to use negative concorditems as fragment answers has been taken as evidence their having aninherent negative force; this chapter considers ...