In this paper, I draw on data from Russian to argue for the asymmetry between Goal and Source prepositional phrases. Source prepositional phrases are structurally ambiguous; they can occur both as arguments and adjuncts in certain syntactic contexts. Goal prepositional phrases are unambiguously arguments. I claim that Source prepositions have lexically specified semantics, which determines their ...

Recent research on the generation of social trust and social capital gives public institutions prominent roles as instruments for creating social capital, the trust and connections between community members that yield collective action. Less is known about specific institutions and the mechanisms involved in creating social capital. In this paper, public library programs directed towards immigrants ...

This paper investigates possible attrition/change in the gender system of Norwegian heritage language spoken in America. Based on data from 50 speakers in the Corpus of American Norwegian Speech (CANS), we show that the three-gender system is to some extent retained, although considerable overgeneralization of the masculine (the most frequent gender) is attested. This affects both feminine and ...

Based on data from two experimental studies, this paper investigates the production of gender in a Norwegian dialect (Tromsø) by several groups of child and adult speakers. The findings show that gender is late acquired (around age 7) and, furthermore, that there are considerable differences between the groups, indicating an ongoing historical change that involves the loss of feminine gender ...

We employ a new empirical approach to an enduring controversy concerning the development of a system of imperfective vs. perfective verbs in Slavic. While scholars once claimed that this is an ancient inherited system, dating from the prehistoric era, most now believe that the Slavic aspect pair system is an innovation. Different opinions concerning the date of this innovation range from the time ...

Det siste tiåret har det blitt forska mykje på grammatisk kjønn i Noreg, både på korleis barn lærer det og korleis det grammatiske kjønnssystemet er i endring. Basert på korpusdata ser Rodina & Westergaard (2013) på korleis unge barn i Tromsø lærer seg kjønnssystemet, det vil seie barn yngre enn tre år. Dei finn at barna ikkje har problem med bunden form, men at dei slit med kongruens på andre ...

Artikkelen undersøker Jerry Crafts grafiske roman New Kid (2019) med utgangspunkt i Critical Race Theory (CRT). CRT-forskere hevder at rasisme er et strukturelt fenomen som påvirker alle områder av det offentlige livet, blant annet utdanning. New Kid er basert på autobiografiske erfaringer av å være ‘african american’ på en hovedsakelig hvit eliteskole i USA og kan derfor leses som en ‘counter-story’ ...

This article provides with a state of the art of how the Individual Level / Stage Level distinction –and the related but distinct issue of the distribution of ser / estar– is instantiated in Spanish. We argue that the IL / SL distinction can be understood in two different ways: as a contrast between properties predicated of an individual or of a stage of that individual, and as a contrast between ...

This article conducts a critical reading of the British war films Mark of Cain (Munden, 2007) and Battle for Haditha (Broomfield, 2007). Establishing the significance of cultural representations for politics and collective memory, I first locate both films in their historical and cultural contexts before I offer analyses that focus on the representation of US and British soldiers, Iraqi insurgents, ...