Artikkelen undersøker tidspunktet for nedgangen i antall tjenere i Norge. Det er manglende samsvar mellom de tall og den periodisering som har vært anvendt i historikernes framstillinger og de aggregerte tidsserier som er gjort tilgjengelige fra Statistisk sentralbyrå i etterkrigstida. Med utgangspunkt i transkriberte individdata fra folketellingene 1865, 1875 og 1900 undersøkes utviklingen ...

Comparisons between dialects tell us how a dialect relates to other dialects: how isolated it is, and which dialects it is most closely related to. Areal-linguistic studies also give information about the historical ties of the dialect and its speakers to other regions and about their cultural background. The present article discusses the relation of the Russian dialect of Varzuga, an old Pomor ...

This article raises three main questions: (i) What characterizes the EEC/EU's relationship to the Arctic? (ii) What issues/areas have caused problems for the EU in becoming a more relevant actor in the Arctic? (iii) To what degree has Norway been able to exert influence on the Union's ongoing Arctic policy development? By chronologically reviewing the EEC/EU's relationship to the Arctic the article ...

Research has shown that givenness is one of several factors that influence the choice of word order with the Dative Alternation in languages such as English. This paper investigates to what extent Norwegian children between the ages of 4;2 and 6;0 are sensitive to this factor in production. In order to test this, an experiment was carried out in which the children were prompted to produce structures ...

The article identifies the exponent for the longest caves in the Scandinavian Caledonides, UK, part of the Alps, USA and the earth. The exponent is used to calculate the total number of caves longer than 100 m and 10 m in different regions, using equations described by Rane Curl in 1986 and statistical methods like maximum likelihood estimation and Kolmogorov-Smirnov. The article discusses whether ...

I siste del av 1800-tallet sank andelen eldre som bodde sammen med egne voksne barn i Nord-Troms og Finnmark. Artikkelen diskuterer i et etnisk perspektiv hvilken effekt alder, kjønn, ekteskapelig status og stilling som husholdsoverhode hadde på denne typen samboerskap, og hva som bidro til endring. Analysen viser at nedgangen, uavhengig av etnisk tilknytning, var et resultat av at enker og enkemenn ...

One of the main topics on the study of the relationship between syntax and morphology is (deverbal) nominalizations. In this area, several generalizations that tie the morphological make-up with the syntactic structure have been made. Most relevantly, it has been argued that only overt nominalizations (those that include a nominalizer like -ation or -ment) are allowed to have internal arguments ...

During the last part of the nineteenth century, Finnmark province and the Northern part of Troms experienced a decline in intergenerational coresidence. This article discusses what impact ethnic affiliation and economic activity had on the living arrangements of the elderly, and what contributed to the change. Logistic regression shows that ethnicity played a role, but its effect disappears after ...

Since the late 1970s, Norwegian historians have debated the standing of photographs in historical research. Efforts have been made to establish photographs as sources, not merely illustrations in historical narratives. The present article discusses the use of photographs taken in Northern Norway in the 1920s and 1930s by the Finnish author Samuli Paulaharju, best known for his research on Finnish ...

I argue in this paper for a novel analysis of case in Icelandic, with implications for case theory in general. I argue that structural case is the manifestation on the noun phrase of features which are semantically interpretable on verbal projections. Thus, Icelandic case does not encode features of noun phrase interpretation, but it is not uninterpretable either; case is properly seen as reflecting ...