While most investigations of bilingualism document participants’ language background, there is an absence of consensus on how to quantify bilingualism. The high number of different language background questionnaires used by researchers and practitioners jeopardises data comparability and cross-pollination between research and practice. Using the Delphi consensus survey method, we asked 132 ...

<p>How might Ethiopia maintain its federal structure and its territory? ‘Constitutional contestation’ in Ethiopia is fuelled by two factors: regions and political parties follow ethnic line; and the Ethiopian Constitution has a secession clause. <p>A central challenge is to secure sufficient political trust. The public must be assured that authorities and individuals across regional borders generally ...

Recent experiments have confirmed earlier informal evidence that finite adjuncts are not islands categorically. Specifically, it has been shown that adjuncts are not necessarily islands for all dependency types (Sprouse et al. 2016), and that the island status of an adjunct depends on the type of the adjunct clause in question (Kush et al. 2019; Müller 2019; Bondevik et al. 2021; Nyvad et al. ...

Daen barkoen aamhtese lea åarjelsaemien attribuhte jïh predikative systeemen bïjre, guktie adjektivh attribuhte/-jïh prediaktive hammojde åadtjoeh. Daesnie vuesehtem guktie adjektivh njïelje sojjehtimmiesysteemi mietie sojjesuvvieh jïh guktie sijjen hammoeh sjidtieh.Daehtie joekehtimmeste vuajna lea joekehts ovtetje vuesiehtimmijste, vuesiehtæmman Bergslanden systemijste, man leah göökte systemh. ...

This article seeks to shed light on the diary of Maksim Ivanovich Starostin (1902–1948), First Secretary of the Murmansk Provisional Committee of the Communist Party and Chairman of the Murmansk Defense Committee, and written during the Great Patriotic War (1941–1945). As a colonel and later major-general, Starostin was a member of the Military Council of the Soviet Northern Fleet and the Military ...

Human mobility is perpetuated at the intersection of opportunity and pressure. In this photographic essay, I explore reverberations of movement from the Arctic to East Africa, where I have done ethnographic fieldwork or passed through on my own anthropological and personal journey. The photos compare continuities of movement for transborder Skolt Sámi communities in Fennoscandia, sedentarized East ...

Pavel Kohout’s bestselling novel The Premonitions of St Clara (Nápady svaté Kláry), whose first German edition was published in Hamburg in 1980, and first Czech edition in Toronto in 1981, describes a commotion caused by a psychic teenage girl called Clara in an unnamed Communist-run small provincial Czech town in the mid-1960s. My article traces how the novel and its adaptations – a 1980 ...

1. Large carnivores influence ecosystem dynamics in multiple ways, for example, by suppressing meso-carnivores and providing carrions for smaller scavengers. Loss of large carnivores is suggested to cause meso-carnivore increase and expansion. Moreover, competition between meso-carnivores may be modified by the presence of larger carnivores. In tundra ecosystems, the smallest meso-carnivore, ...

Studiens formål er å belyse hvilke utfordringer lederne på et operasjonelt nivå møter når gender settes på agendaen ved FN-misjonen på Kypros (UNFICYP), samt om lederne gjør tiltak for å minimere utfordringene. Bakgrunnen for dette er at UNFICYP har en forpliktelse gitt i FN-resolusjon 1325 om å implementere gender-perspektivet i sitt daglige virke i den hensikt å øke effekten av misjonen og oppdragene. ...

Emnet for denne masteroppgåva er om korleis norske kommunar forsøker å utøve eigarstyring av kommunale føretak gjennom samansetning av føretaket sitt styre. Kor medviten er måten kommunar sett saman styret på, og har samansetning av styret noko å seie for kva ein oppnår? Fokuset er retta mot kva ordførarane meiner om dette spørsmålet. Utifrå tilbakemeldinga frå ordførarane er det ikkje eintydig kven ...