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Adverbial Resumption and Scope: A Case Study of Norwegian
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Adverbial Resumption in V2 Languages: The Background
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Agreement is not an essential ingredient of finiteness: Evidence from impersonal sentences in Norwegian dialects and in English
(Chapter, 2016)I argue in this article that agreement is not an essential ingredient of T/finiteness. Using the mechanism of valuation of unvalued features, I argue that unvalued agreement features in T only exist if there is visible ... -
Allegory and Aestheticism in the Fantasies of George MacDonald
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An Exploration of tonal features in some East Norwegian Dialects: Fintoft & Mjaavatn (1980) revisited
(Chapter, 2017)In this paper we report on our findings in an investigation of the recently rediscovered recordings made by Fintoft & Mjaavatn in their frequently cited study from 1980. They found that the Norwegian word accents, or ‘toneme ... -
Andre språk i Noreg
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"Are you new to quality?"
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Assessment challenges in Acquired Aphasia in Multilingual Individuals
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Be careful how you use the left periphery
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Biographical Sketch
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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 ... -
Business writing in early sixteenth-century Norway
(Chapter, 2017)This article discusses the linguistic make-up of business writing in late medieval / early modern Norway and addresses questions of language choice and language mixing. The most important foreign language was Low German, ... -
But They Call Us the Language Police!’ Speaker and Ethnic Identifying Profiles in the Process of Revitalizing the South Saami Language, Culture and Ethnic Identity
(Chapter, 2019)The aim of this study has been to highlight the complexity of a linguistic community which has undergone two language shifts in less than one century. The different social actors are given a voice in this multiple environments. ... -
But write what?
(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 ... -
Chomsky's "Galilean" Explanatory Style
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Cointensional questions, fragment answers, and structured meanings
(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 ... -
Competition at the Left Edge: Left-Dislocation vs. Topicalization in Heritage Germanic
(Chapter, 2021)The present work analyses left dislocation (LD) in Heritage German and Heritage Norwegian as a phenomenon of the left periphery of the clause. Fieldwork conducted from the 1940s through the 2010s shows both a robust ...