This thesis looks at how Norwegian learners of English acquire the English laryngeal feature distribution in two types of suffixes; s-endings and the past tense. The past tense forms are distributed almost identically in both Norwegian and English, only differing after sonorants. The s-endings in Norwegian are all voiceless, whereas in English these behave in a parallel way to the past tense. A ...

This thesis investigates whether Ln learners of Norwegian at different stages in their acquisition are familiar with the phenomenon known as Object Shift (OS), which allows a pronominal object to move across negation in certain contexts. An object is only allowed to shift if it is an unstressed pronoun that refers back to a specific noun. Objects in the form of pronouns that refer back to a whole ...

Abstract The thesis investigates Nepali L1 speakers’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English to test whether functional morphology is more difficult than syntax. Accordingly, the study mainly included two constructions: subject-verb agreement and word order. Subject-verb agreement was used to test knowledge of functional morphology while word order was used to test the knowledge about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...