This study examines the work of non-state crisis centres for women in Northwest Russia by asking “How do non-state crisis centres for women in Northwest Russia produce security?” The work of Pierre Bourdieu contributes to an analytical approach that illustrates security practices in regard to this context. On the basis of interviews conducted with crisis centre representatives, Moscow-based national ...

The dissertation investigates how Russian children acquire the category of grammatical gender in their mother tongue. The focus of the study is on several specific classes of nouns whose gender is usually derived from their semantic rather than their morphological properties, e.g. papa ‘daddy’. Previously, such nouns have been found to be problematic for children acquiring various languages. This ...

Avhandlingens tema er menneskers erfaringer i rehabiliteringsprosesser. Den handler om mennesker som strever med å gjenvinne et liv på nye premisser etter at de har blitt alvorlig skadet. Deltakerne er en kvinne og fem menn i utkant-Norge i alderen 20 til 40 år. Skadene har ført til ulike grader av lammelser og tap av sensitivitet nedenfor skadestedet. Datainnsamlingen er foretatt gjennom intervjuer ...

Temaet for avhandlingen er slektsfosterhjem som offentlig barneverntiltak i Norge. Avhandlingen som består av fire artikler og sammenbindingskapittel har problemstilingen: Hvordan kan slektsfosterhjem som fenomen innen offentlige velferdstjenester forstås, og hvordan erfares slektsfosterhjem av fosterbarn? Det empiriske materialet består av offentlige høringsdokumenter samt kvalitative intervju med ...

Avhandlingen utgangspunkt i følgende forskningsspørsmål: Hvordan involverer somaliske foreldre seg i sine barns skolegang? Hvilke forhold har betydning for foreldrenes involvering? Hvordan involverer lærere seg i somaliske elevers skolegang? Hvilke forhold har betydning for lærernes involvering? Generelt kan fremheves at situasjonen ikke er så entydig problematisk som mye av debatten og mange ...

This dissertation explores the contemporary archaeological record of Retiro, a derelict 19th-century landscape garden and summer estate located in the town of Molde on the north-western coast of Norway. The main topic that this thesis investigates is the consequences of acknowledging Retiro with its excess of unruly and apparently ruinous characteristics, as heritage. This involves focusing on ...

The study maps the development of a new class of adverbs in English, i.e. 'stative physical adverbs' of the type -ly, e.g. redly and massively. Such adverbs are claimed to be ungrammatical; however, the data show that this is no longer the case, but that English has changed with regard to this point of the grammar. The study includes an analysis of the linguistic context in which the corpus adverbs ...

This thesis takes the position that head movement is a narrow syntactic phenomenon that can affect locality constraints thereby forcing certain phrasal elements such as a phrase containing a Wh to undergo movement. The basic proposal explored in the thesis dates back to Chomsky (1986) where the movement of a verb is proposed to be able to affect and alter a barrier. This idea is translated into ...

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