Blar i Øvrige samlinger på forfatter "Åfarli, Tor Anders"
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Agreement is not an essential ingredient of finiteness: Evidence from impersonal sentences in Norwegian dialects and in English
Åfarli, Tor Anders (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 ... -
Distribuert genus i norske DPar
Åfarli, Tor Anders; Nygård, Mari; Riksem, Brita Ramsevik (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022) -
Ellipsens syntaktiske struktur
Nygård, Mari; Eide, Kristin Melum; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2008) -
Formell og semantisk adjektivkongruens i norsk
Åfarli, Tor Anders; Vangsnes, Øystein A (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 ... -
Hybrid Verb Forms in American Norwegian and the Analysis of the Syntactic Relation between the Verb and its Tense
Åfarli, Tor Anders (Chapter, 2015)English roots/stems that are nonce borrowed into American Norwegian regularly show Norwegian tense inflection. In this article, I use data of such hybrid verb forms as a starting-point for an investigation of the general ... -
Language mixing and exoskeletal theory: A case study of word-internal mixing in American Norwegian
Grimstad, Maren Berg; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)This paper discusses word-internal mixing in American Norwegian. The data show that the functional vocabulary is Norwegian whereas many of the lexical content items come from English. We argue that language mixing provides ... -
Language mixing within verbs and nouns in American Norwegian
Riksem, Brita Ramsevik; Grimstad, Maren Berg; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This paper presents case-studies of language mixing within verbs and nouns in the heritage language American Norwegian, which refers to varieties spoken by Norwegian immigrants to the US and their descendants. The paper ... -
Lexicalist vs. exoskeletal approaches to language mixing
Grimstad, Maren Berg; Riksem, Brita Ramsevik; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)This article presents empirical evidence that disfavors using highly lexicalist minimalist models, such as the one presented in Chomsky (1995), when analyzing language mixing. The data analyzed consist of English – Spanish ... -
Lokativalternasjonen og dativ på Nordvestlandet
Anderson, Marianne; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)I denne artikkelen argumenterer me for at dei to leddstillingsvariantane i lokativalternasjonen skal analyserast som to radikalt ulike strukturar, der den eine har ein postverbal struktur som består av direkte objekt og ... -
Motivasjon for separate numerus- og definittprojeksjonar i norsk DP-struktur
Åfarli, Tor Anders (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)I denne artikkelen vil eg legge fram og diskutere to ulike typar empiriske argument for å rekne med at DEF og NUM eksisterer som separate funksjonelle kjernar/projeksjonar i strukturen til DP i norsk. Det første argumentet ... -
Predication in Syntax: Toward a Semantic Explanation of the Subject Requirement
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Syntactic frames and single-word code-switching: A case study of Mandarin Chinese - Norwegian bilingualism
Åfarli, Tor Anders; Jin, Fufen (Chapter, 2014)Mainstream core grammar theory, still to some extent relying on the idealized speaker in a homogeneous speech community, is ill equipped to handle different kinds of periphery data, like code-switching data and other types ...