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Tromsø som samisk by? – Språkideologier og medienes rolle i språkdebatten
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
This article presents a critical analysis of the discursive practices in the public debate on Sámi language in Tromsø. The conflict around the political plan of Tromsø municipality to join the administrative area for the Sámi language lasted for about one year and was largely carried out in the local newspapers, which had established themselves as an arena and broker in the conflict. The ...
Optional Word Order in Wh-Questions in Two Norwegian Dialects: A Diachronic Analysis of Synchronic Variation
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2005)
Based on a corpus of spontaneous production data, this paper compares the word order of wh-questions in two Norwegian dialects, Kåfjord and Tromsø. While the choice of word order (V2 or non-V2) in Tromsø is dependent on information structure, the Kåfjord speakers produce considerably more non-V2 in questions with monosyllabic wh-elements. The majority of questions with multisyllabic wh-constituents, ...
Can Choosing the Form of a Name Be an Act of Identity?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
This paper discusses if place names can be used to construct and express identity, with a focus on the Norwegian names of farms and parishes. Since the Norwegian Place Name Act came into existence in 1991, the many appeals in regard to official spellings as decided by the authorities give clear indication that Norwegians have different opinions of how the names of farms
and parishes should be spelled ...
A restricted freedom of choice: Linguistic diversity in the digital landscape
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
The freedom of choosing what language to use in various contexts is restricted by a wide range of non-linguistic factors. One often-overlooked factor is the availability of a digital
infrastructure for the languages in question. To put it bluntly: With no keyboard layout
available there also will be no texts written. The article looks at different aspects related
to minority languages and digital ...
Sosiale roller og lokale og globale interesser i vurderingen av språksituasjoner
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
Kommer det samiske språket til å dø ut? Trusler mot det språklige mangfoldet og mulig språkdød er hyppig diskutert i det flerspråklige Nord-Norge. Deltakere i denne diskursen er talere, lokale aktører, forskere og fageksperter, statlige myndigheter, politikere og globale organisasjoner som UNESCO. Denne studien tar utgangspunkt i tre ulike vurderinger av den samiske språksituasjonen og språkenes ...
The History of the Russian Semelfactive: The Development of a Radial Category
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
This paper explores the history of suffixed semelfactive verbs in Russian, i.e., verbs like maxnut’ ‘wave once’ with the nu suffix. It is argued that the semelfactive aktionsart is best analyzed as a radial category organized around a prototype with four properties: uniformity, instantaneousness, non-resultativity, and single occurrence, which are defined and discussed in the article. I go on to ...
Nouns or verbs? A case study of the Russian words bain’ki, kušan’ki, spaten’ki and gulen’ki
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)
In this article I investigate part of speech distinctions in Russian based on an in-depth analysis of an understudied group of words, namely bain’ki ‘sleep’, spaten’ki ‘sleep’, kušan’ki ‘eat’ and gulen’ki ‘walk’, which are mainly used in speech with or about children, but which regardless of their high frequency and productivity remain ignored in Russian linguistics. The main question is: what part ...
How ‘here’ and ‘now’ in Russian and English establish joint attention in TV news broadcasts
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
This article presents a thorough investigation of the five Russian deictic words that correspond to the English meanings ‘here’ and ‘now’: zdes’, tut, sejčas, teper’ and vot. We analyze data from the Russian National Corpus and data from Russian TV news broadcasts. On the basis of the corpus data, we propose a radial category network consisting of nine subcategories, which encompass all five words, ...
Semantic Profiles of Five Russian Prefixes: po-, s-, za-, na-, pro-
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
We test the hypothesis that Russian verbal prefixes express meaning even when they are used to create a “purely aspectual” pair (“čistovidovaja para”). This is contrary to traditional assumptions that prefixes in this function are semantically “empty”. We analyze the semantic tags independently established in the Russian National Corpus (www.ruscorpora.ru) for 382 perfective partner verbs with five ...
Creating the contours of grammar
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)
We are pleased to present Aspect in Slavic: Creating Time, Creating Grammar as a special issue of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Here we offer some of the research results of the CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian) group at the University of Tromsø and our collaborators. This research was sponsored by a grant from the Norwegian Research Council for a project entitled ...