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    • Language mixing within verbs and nouns in American Norwegian 

      Riksem, Brita Ramsevik; Grimstad, Maren Berg; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-06-29)
      This paper presents case-studies of language mixing within verbs and nouns in the heritage language American Norwegian, which refers to varieties spoken by Norwegian immigrants to the US and their descendants. The paper builds on data from the newly established <i>Corpus of American Norwegian Speech</i> and argues in favor of an exoskeletal approach to language mixing. This approach distinguishes ...
    • Lexicalist vs. exoskeletal approaches to language mixing 

      Grimstad, Maren Berg; Riksem, Brita Ramsevik; Lohndal, Terje; Åfarli, Tor Anders (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-06-05)
      This article presents empirical evidence that disfavors using highly lexicalist minimalist models, such as the one presented in Chomsky (1995), when analyzing language mixing. The data analyzed consist of English – Spanish mixed noun phrases discussed in Moro (2014) as well as English – Norwegian mixed noun phrases and verbs taken from the Corpus of American Norwegian Speech. Whereas the lexicalist ...