• The acquisition of time reference by Norwegian school learners of English 

      Tingstad, Kjersti Røttereng (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 1999-03-31)
    • Acquisition of Verbal Aspect in L2 English by advanced learners with L1 Russian and L1 Norwegian: A web-based eye tracking study 

      Ermolina, Iuliia (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-05-30)
      It is well known that the similarities between L1 and L2 (also L3, etc.) facilitate language acquisition, whereas significant differences between them result in non-facilitating effects. These effects are known as Cross-Linguistic Influence (CLI). The main objective of the current study is to investigate the CLI, experienced by high proficient L2 English speakers when the grammatical aspect is being ...
    • The acquisition of word order in yes/no and wh-questions - A case study of an unbalanced bilingual. 

      Brattsti, Fredrick (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-05-14)
      This thesis aims to explore the variation with which one bilingual child produces word order in English questions, and ask whether the child’s dominant language, Norwegian, affects this production. Using new data from a corpus where data collection is still ongoing, we present evidence that the child transfers the word order for questions in both standard Norwegian and the Tromsø dialect into her ...
    • Acusativo y dativo con los verbos psicológicos y de influencia. Un estudio de corpus con aplicaciones didácticas 

      Gaare, Gisle (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-05-06)
      Denne oppgavens tema er å vise både lærere og lærende i spansk hvordan noen spanske verb skiller seg sterkt fra de tilsvarende norske oversettelsene i bruk av både direkte og indirekte objekt og plassering av subjekt, samt hvordan og hvorfor disse verbene kan oppleves vanskelige å bruke som spanskstuderende.
    • Address forms in Persian based on Iranian movies 

      Derakhshan Rokni, Tina (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2012-11-15)
      The present thesis: “Address forms in Persian language based on Iranian movies”, investigates address forms as socio-linguistic forms which are directly related to social factors such as age, gender and social class. In the Persian language there is a strong tradition of addressing each other in various ways, changing from one context to another. Addressing is a universal phenomenon, but the rules ...
    • Ambiposisjovnh - gïehtjedimmie njielje ambiposisjovnijste 

      Steinfjell, Maidi Persson (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-18)
      Fire sørsamiske adposisjoner med OVER-betydning og den semantiske forskjellen mellom post- og preposisjon. I denne oppgaven presenteres det hvordan man kan si OVER på sørsamisk med fire velkjente adposisjoner. De fire adposisjonene er aatsolen, bijjelen, dåaresth og rastah. Problemstillingen i denne oppgaven er følgende «Hvordan kan man si OVER på sørsamisk og er det en semantisk forskjell mellom ...
    • Animatumkategorien i russisk : en empirisk undersøkelse av ord for sjødyr og mikroorganismer 

      Røkenes, Erle Hansine (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-15)
      Denne oppgaven handler om animatumkategorien i russisk og tar utgangspunkt i regelen om at ord som betegner levende vesener, får genitivlik akkusativ. Jeg ser nærmere på to områder, hvor det er kjent at det er usikkerhet i bruken av genitivlik akkusativ, nemlig små sjødyr og mikroorganismer. Jeg har undersøkt hvordan disse ordene bøyes, både ved hjelp av en informantundersøkelse og en korpusundersøkelse. ...
    • Aptitude in the Classroom: an empirical study of the pedagogical functionality of the LLAMA test battery in an upper secondary school 

      Larsen, Morten Skillingstad (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-15)
      This thesis explores the suitability of using aptitude testing and the LLAMA aptitude tests in a Norwegian upper secondary school class, and the potential pedagogical advantages such testing can have. Aptitude testing entails measuring language learners’ specific talent for learning foreign languages and this is an individual difference that exhibits considerable variation between learners (Dörnyei ...
    • Arbeidsrettet norskopplæring - et helhetlig læringsrom 

      Kornbakk, Karoline Dalheim; Idrupsen, Marte (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-05-28)
      Temaet for denne mastergradsavhandlingen er arbeidsrettet norskopplæring. Prosjektet har hatt som siktemål å undersøke en ny opplæringsmodell som skal etableres på et læringssenter i Norge. Modellen er en omstrukturering av tiltak i introduksjonsprogrammet, og deltakere innenfor rammene av denne er voksne innvandrere og flyktninger som skal lære norsk. Opplæringsmodellen bygger på en kombinasjon av ...
    • Argument structure and morphological marking in Indonesian: A research on verbalisations and its consequences for nominalisations 

      Violine, Melody (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-12)
      This thesis aims at providing an analysis of the mapping between the morphological marking and argument structure in Indonesian, studying the role that the verbal prefixes and suffixes use in the standard variety of this language play in defining syntactic configurations that support the presence of arguments. Secondarily, the thesis also discusses how nominalisation of the relevant verb classes ...
    • Aspectos de sociolingüística del español de Cádiz: formas de tratamiento y actitudes lingüísticas 

      Jobsen, Lone (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2013-11-01)
      The aim of this thesis is to provide a study of sociolinguistic aspects of the Spanish variety spoken in Cádiz, city in the province with the same name, located in Andalucía. The focus will be on the following subjects: the linguistic attitudes of the community in Cádiz towards their own speech and the use of the address forms in the same city, concentrating on the young generation. Here, the main ...
    • «Å ta språklig mangfold nord». En studie av lærerens bruk av læremidler i undervisning om samiske tema i norskfaget 

      Bewalitz, Katharina Andersen (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2022-05-14)
      Denne oppgaven handler om norsklæreres praksis og tanker ved bruk av læremidler i undervisning om samiske tema i videregående skole. Jeg har undersøkt hvilke læremidler og tematikker som tas i bruk, samt hvilke roller enkeltlæreren, skolen og lokalsamfunnet har i disse valgene. Prosjektet bygger på empiri fra fire kvalitative intervju med ulike lærere i videregående skole. Oppgavens teoretiske ramme ...
    • Åarjelsaemien attribuhte-predikative systeeme 

      Kappfjell, Maja Lisa (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2010-05-31)
      Daen barkoen aamhtese lea åarjelsaemien attribuhte jïh predikative systeemen bïjre, guktie adjektivh attribuhte/-jïh prediaktive hammojde åadtjoeh. Daesnie vuesehtem guktie adjektivh njïelje sojjehtimmiesysteemi mietie sojjesuvvieh jïh guktie sijjen hammoeh sjidtieh.Daehtie joekehtimmeste vuajna lea joekehts ovtetje vuesiehtimmijste, vuesiehtæmman Bergslanden systemijste, man leah göökte systemh. ...
    • Åarjelsaemien infinihte veerbehaemieh 

      Labj, Anja (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-06-16)
      I denne masteroppgaven analyseres sørsamiske infinitte verbformer gjennom deres morfologi, syntaks og semantikk. Målet er å finne svar på hvilke infinitte verbformer som finnes i sørsamisk med hovedvekt på funksjonsanalyse, og gjennom dette beskrive et koherent system av infinitte verbformer fra et morfosyntaktisk perspektiv. På grunnlag av en tredelt funksjonsanalyse som tar for seg predikative og ...
    • Åarjelsaemien ovagkusatijvh jïh kausatijve molsedimmie 

      Jonasson, Nils Jonas David (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2011-05)
      I den här uppsatsen undersöks den icke-ackusativa gruppen av sydsamiska verb, där verb som tsoepkenidh ’gå av’, gaahpanidh ’gå upp/öppnas’ och bæjjanidh ’höjas’ återfinns. Den icke-ackusativa gruppen är en undergrupp till de intransitiva verben, och kännetecknas av en oförmåga att uttrycka den semantiska rollen Agens. I många språk är den kausativa alternationen använd som en ...
    • The battle of hearts and minds : an analysis of the Iraq War discourse in politics and newspapers 

      Høyer, Andreas Beddari (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-11-15)
      The most controversial and divisive political issue in Britain in the last decade was the decision to go to war in Iraq. The legitimisation and justification for making this decision was argued through a carefully considered discourse constructed by Prime Minister Tony Blair and his associates. A key role in mediating and manifesting the discourse of Blair was played out by the media. If Blair was ...
    • Bi-multilingual Language Engagement Shapes the Brain’s Functional Connectivity: An Aging Study on Resting State Brain Rhythms Correlated to Executive Functions 

      Berglund, Gaute (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2023-05-12)
      Bi-multilingualism have been argued to help maintain cognitive functioning in aging through increased resilience to cognitive decline, known as cognitive reserves (CR). Researchers have argued that bi-multilingualism imposes unique cognitive demands that can change the brain’s structural and functional integrity. In order to investigate the effects of multilingual engagement on cognition, ...
    • Bilingual vocabulary acquisition A corpus-based case study 

      Varhaug, Esther (Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2021-05-16)
      A bilingual learning two languages from birth seems to follow the same developmental trajectory as that of a monolingual. However, within vocabulary acquisition persistent and significant differences have been found between bilingual and monolinguals when the languages of bilinguals are compared separately to monolinguals’ level. The domain specific nature of a bilingual’s vocabularies is an important ...
    • The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: Norwegian L1 speakers’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in English L2 

      Jensen, Isabel Nadine (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2016-05-14)
      In this master’s thesis, we test the Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova 2006; 2008; 2013) in L2 acquisition of English by Norwegian speakers. According to this hypothesis, functional morphology is the bottleneck of L2 acquisition, i.e. the most challenging part for L2 learners to acquire. We test two constructions that do not match in English and Norwegian: subject-verb agreement and verb movement. ...
    • Bowing out in style. A critical discourse analysis of Margaret Thatcher's and Tony Blair's farewell addresses 

      Andreassen, Vegar (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2007-06-13)
      This thesis is an analysis of Margaret Thatcher's and Tony Blair's last addresses as British Prime Ministers as well as the reception these farewell speeches got in a selection of five British national newspaper editorials. My hypothesis is that Thatcher and Blair try to cement their legacies through the language they use and the power of definition – and that the two speeches mirror each other given ...