This study investigates the role of lexical vs structural similarity in L3 acquisition. We designed a mini-artificial language learning task where the novel L3 was lexically based on Norwegian but included a property that was present in Russian and Greek yet absent in Norwegian (grammatical case). The participants were Norwegian-Russian and Norwegian-Greek bilinguals as well as a group of Norwegian ...

Skjønnlitterære og selvbiografiske sykdomsskildringer opplever økt oppmerksomhet både hos den alminnelige leser og hos fagfolk. Genrens popularitet kan forstås som resultat av den åpenheten og interessen som subjektive erfaringer har i dagens kulturelle landskap, og som forlag, sosiale medier og fremveksten av den såkalte virkelighetslitteraturen har skapt en arena for. Boken viser hvordan den ...

Paul Muldoon and the Language of Poetry is the first book in years that attends to the entire oeuvre of the Irish-American poet, critic, lyricist, dramatist and Princeton professor from his debut with New Weather in 1973 up to his very recent publications. Ruben Moi’s book explores, in correspondence with language philosophy and critical debate, how Muldoon’s ingenious language and inventive form ...

This study reports on grammatical gender assignment in elicited production data from heritage speakers of Turkish, Papiamento, and Spanish in the Netherlands. We selectively target the nominal domain, consisting of a determiner, a noun, and an adjective. Previous studies have demonstrated gender to be vulnerable in bilingual acquisition (e.g., Gathercole & Thomas 2005; Mitrofanova et al. 2018). The ...

Studies investigating the role of dual language use in modulating executive functions have reported mixed results, with some studies reporting benefits in older adults. These studies typically focus on bilingual settings, while the role of dual language use in diglossic settings is rarely investigated. In diglossia, the two language varieties are separated by context, making it an ideal test case ...

Through comparative reading, I elaborate on claims in previous Ibsen research on Shakespeare’s influence on Ibsen. The main point is that aspects of Ibsen’s wayof creating dramatic characters from Brand (1866), Ibsen’s Scandinavian breakthrough, via An Enemy ofthe people (1882) to his last and modernistic play When We Dead Awaken (1899), can be regarded asinfluenced by Shakespeare, ...

Die sprachgeschichtliche Epoche von der Mitte des 14. bis zum Beginn des 16. Jahrhunderts wird üblicherweise als „mittelnorwegisch“ bezeichnet. Wie der Name sagt, handelt es sich dabei um die Übergangsphase von der altnorwegischen zur neunorwegischen Zeit. Will man die Entwicklungen in dieser Zeit kurz zusammenfassen, so sagt man oft, Altnorwegisch habe sich in dieser Zeit zu den modernen Dialekten ...

This paper outlines the origin and development of the synthetic Perfect from Indo-Iranian, the reconstructed common ancestral stage of the Iranian and Indo-Aryan languages, to Vedic, the oldest attested stage of Old Indo-Aryan. Comparative evidence from Old Iranian, Homeric Greek and a number of other Indo-European languages shows that this morphological category ultimately stems from Proto-Indo-European. ...

Refleksjonen over stedet slik vi møter den hos Christian Norberg-Schulz, er nært knyttet til en refleksjon over mennesket. Denne filosofisk-antropologiske dimensjonen kan være litt skjult i mye av det andre han snakker om: sted, arkitekturhistorie, byggeskikker, stilhistorie. Så kan man spørre: Hvorfor er forståelsen av mennesket så vesentlig for forståelsen av byggekunsten og arkitektens virksomhet? ...

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943–2001), or Áillohaš as he used as his artist name for a period of time, was the greatest Sámi multimedia artist. He made his debut as an author in 1971 with a book of essays, and is so far the only Sámi who has been awarded the prestigious Nordic Council’s literature prize, for his book of poetry and photographs Beaivi, áhčážan, 1989 (The Sun, My Father, 1997).