Syntactic features are formal properties of syntactic objects which determine how they behave with respect to syntactic constraints and operations (such as selection, licensing, agreement, and movement). Syntactic features can be contrasted with properties which are purely phonological, morphological or semantic, but many features are relevant both to syntax and morphology, or to syntax and semantics, ...

This article provides an overview of the syntax and semantics of degree in Spanish, eventually suggesting that degree structure should be viewed as equivalent to aspect in the verbal domain. §1 introduces several of the themes that will be discussed in the article, while §2 introduces the semantics of degree. §3 discusses the basic syntactic properties of degree, particularly with adjectives. §4 ...

Over the last two decades, the question of to which linguistic cues learners pay attention when they decode a new language has been subject to controversy in the field of third language (L3) acquisition. In this article, we present an artificial language learning experiment that investigated how lexical and syntactic similarities between an artificial L3 and preexisting grammars impact crosslinguistic ...

This paper outlines the origin and development of the synthetic Perfect from Indo-Iranian, the reconstructed common ancestral stage of the Iranian and Indo-Aryan languages, to Vedic, the oldest attested stage of Old Indo-Aryan. Comparative evidence from Old Iranian, Homeric Greek and a number of other Indo-European languages shows that this morphological category ultimately stems from Proto-Indo-European. ...

Trust is generally considered to play a key enabling role in water governance. Despite this notion, there have been no systematic assessments examining the way in which the literature on water governance engages with ‘trust’. Our article fills this gap by providing an overview of the way in which this literature has engaged with trust as a conceptual lens, analytical device and empirical phenomenon. ...

Målsettinga for denne oppgaven var å finne muligheter til systematisk opplæring av enkeltelevene i kreativ skriving, spesielt noveller, i skolen. Valget falt på en meningsbasert lingvistisk tilnærming med et funksjonelt språksyn i bunnen. Dette sammenholdes med "Læreplanen av 1997", som er de rammene skolens innhold og undervisning hviler på. Videre så jeg på lærebøkene for ett klassetrinn i ...

In his book from 1865 Johan Kulstad tells the story of a hunting expedition to Spitzbergen in 1853. The mother ship disappears, and in desperation Kulstad and his six men starts rowing their small hunting boat back to Norway. After six days of incredible suffering, they are rescued by a Danish ship a few miles off the coast of Finnmark. After outlining the main sides of this story, the article ...

Det å flytte utløser refleksjoner om språk, sted, identitet og tilhørighet, og denne masteroppgava retter søkelyset mot disse refleksjonene. Formålet med denne sosiokulturell-lingvistiske studien er nærmere bestemt å utforske hvordan en flytteprosess påvirker oppfatninger om språklig identitet og tilhørighet hos fire flyttere fra Oslo til Tromsø. Mens tidligere sosiolingvistiske studier har studert ...