This dissertation presents an empirical and theoretical examination of Pluractional Perfects, i.e. analytic participle constructions with the semantics of a Perfect that at the same time incorporate some form of plurality at the level of the event described. This is the first study that aims at unifying through a common set of syntactic and semantic properties a group of constructions that were ...

Prosjektet er en filosofisk utforskning av ulike tilnærminger til og forståelser av det å være menneske. Det tematiske utgangspunktet for denne utforskningen er problemstillingen medisinsk uforklarte symptomer. Avhandlingen rommer et omfattende dypdykk i dette medisinske saksforholdet og en kritikk av den medisinsk-vitenskapelige tenkemåte både om selve saksforholdet og det aktuelle studieobjektet ...

The topic of this dissertation is the management of high- performing cultures in international men’s football, based on a longitudinal study in real time of a Norwegian national head coach. The dissertation consists of a cover article and three articles. The first article is a systematic review of the literature on high-performing cultures in professional sports, while the other two are based on ...

This dissertation investigates the relation between digital games and common understandings of the past, which people experience through popular culture, formally called 'cultural memory processes'. Typically, so-called historical digital games depict historical scenarios such as World War II, the Cold War, and more recently, the War on Terror, as also seen in major film productions, TV series, and ...

En grunnantagelse er at økt levetid på produkter generelt ville være til fordel for miljøet. Lang produktlevetid er imidlertid en miljømessig ulempe når produkter uansett byttes ut av andre årsaker enn kvalitetsmessige foreldelse, og også dersom den fører til at et produkt ikke blir byttet ut med en ny og vesentlig mer miljøøkonomisk utgave. Avhandlingen er et forsøk på å besvare spørsmål om ...

Prosjektorganisering er en arbeidsform som representerer et alternativ til den tradisjonelle linjeorganisasjonen. Ved å avgrense oppgaver som skal utføres innenfor en spesiell tidsramme, er hensikten å øke organisasjoners evne til fornyelse. De siste tiårene har denne organisasjonsformen hatt en rask og omfattende spredning til ulike typer organisasjoner uavhengig av størrelse eller sektor. Avhandlingen ...

Indigenous peoples and their organizations (IPOs) in the Arctic region and worldwide use international norms to hold governments and extractive corporations accountable for violations of Indigenous peoples’ rights. However, IPOs in undemocratic states face greater obstacles in engaging with these norms, given the government’s limited responsiveness to arguments based on international laws on the ...

The thesis is an attempt to arrive at the cartography of the low thematic domain of the clause using data from various argument structure constructions in Polish. It assumes the existence of a universal functional sequence (cf. Cinque (1999)) and the theory of morphology where morphemes are lexically specified to spell out chunks of the universal sequence. Furthermore, functional vocabulary items ...

This dissertation explores reading comprehension abilities with a special focus on language minority bilingual children (LMBC). This population is often found to display lower scores than their monolingual peers and this gap in performance can negatively affect their future educational experience. Our goal was to shed light on the origins of these comprehension difficulties. To do so, we carried out ...

Each summer in the Sakha Republic (Russia), hundreds of thousands of people celebrate an event called yhyakh. This dissertation explores articulations, performances, and translations of the concepts ‘religion’ and ‘indigeneity’ at and around contemporary yhyakhs. It focuses particularly on how yhyakh is understood and performed by its participants, on the motivations of the actors who promote different ...