Henning Andersen (2012) points out that the Russian “new Vocative” (e.g., мам! ‘mama!’, Саш! ‘Sasha!’) presents a series of unusual behaviors that set it apart from ordinary case marking. Andersen argues that the Vocative should not be considered a declensional word form of nouns. The Russian Vocative is certainly an uncommon linguistic category, but does this entail setting up a new tran- scategorial ...

In film history Robert Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922) is usually considered the first documentary and possibly one of the best known documentaries of the silent era. It has also been called the first ethnographic film, as well as the first art film. However, this paper will not discuss the question of whether Nanook is a documentary, rather it will focus on the fact that there is not only ...

<b>Purpose</b> – The purpose of this paper is to provide a discussion on whether more traditional documents like a film of the classical silent era can be discussed as an unbounded document. <b>Design/methodology/approach</b> – By taking Gérard Genette ’ s concept of the paratext as point of departure and focussing on the exhibition of Nanook of the North during the silent era, the ...

Nanosyntax is a novel approach to the architecture of language, designed to make (better) sense of the new empirical picture emerging from recent years of syntactic research. It is a large-scale project, addressing a wide array of issues, ranging from big issues such as the modularity of language, to fine details, such as the derivation of allomorphy in irregular patterns of given languages and its ...

This dissertation proposes a new approach to case. It unifies its syntax, morphology and semantics in a simple, fine-grained and restrictive picture. One of the assumptions frequently made in works on case is that cases such as nominative and accusative are not primitive entities, but they are each composed of various features. The central hypothesis of this dissertation is that these features are ...

3. oktober 1913 satt Fridtjof Nansen på den transsibirske jernbanen ett døgn fra Vladivostok og skrev brev hjem til sin nære venn og kollega Bjørn Helland-Hansen: «Jeg har hatt en interessant reise på mange måter, og har nu hodet fullt av helt nye inntrykk av den mest forskjellige slags fra Ishavet og hit til det Himmelske Rike, som vi nu har reist gjennom, […] Hvad jeg skal gjøre med alt det nye ...

This thesis explores how Said’s idea of Orientalism; how the Self mirrors the Other and recognizes otherness, and how these terms and processes influence and interfere with the establishment of personal identity. However, considerable examples in YA migration narrative demonstrate how Orientalism and othering are outdated and archaic mechanisms of identification, although they still intervene with ...

The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner has been the subject of critical discussion for a long period of time. The discussions mainly revolve around the inconsistencies and ambiguity of the two narratives in the novel: the Editor’s and Robert Wringhim’s. This paper shows how some of this ambiguity is warranted, and how some of it is possible to diminish by perceiving the narratives ...

The article uses narratology as a tool to examine the seventeenth-century witchcraft trials in Finland and the area of Finnmark, Northern Norway, to analyse how experience as a category of knowledge and expression surfaces in original court records. This article focuses on courtroom discourse in witchcraft trials: the interrogation, what the accused confessed to in terms of ideas about witchcraft, ...

Skolen er, og har vært, en viktig premissgiver for forestillingene om vår nasjonale identitet. Samfunnsfaget har som en særlig oppgave å fortelle oss hvem nordmenn er og hva Norge er. Denne boka problematiserer regionale og etniske aspekter ved den norske nasjonale identiteten slik disse framstår i et utvalg lærebøker i norgeshistorie. – Beskrives regionen Nord-Norge som en integrert del av ...