This article explores playfulness and creativity in translingual family interactions. In particular, it focuses on how and to what ends adolescents mobilize multilingual resources in family interactions. It investigates the cases of two multilingual families with adolescent children (13–18 years old). The families have different linguistic backgrounds, but have in common that one of the parents have ...

En este trabajo argumentamos que la marca -d que aparece en las variedades de español peninsular en el imperativo plural no expresa concordancia con el sujeto. Nuestra propuesta es que su posición sintáctica es asimilable a los pronombres clíticos de participante. El motivo de que deba aparecer en la forma plural es que la estructura clausal del imperativo está empobrecida, de manera que para expresar ...

Pietroski successfully dismantles the idea of a formal semantic theory based on direct truth conditions and offers new and formally constrained alternatives. In this paper, I summarize the arguments but also provide a number of test cases to show that refusing to accept Pietroski's conclusions condemns the field to constantly restating and technically evading its own self‐created paradoxes. In the ...

This study examined how relative language proficiency and exposure influence the development of executive function (EF) in 7–12 year-old bilingual ‘returnee’ children. Returnees are children of immigrant families who were immersed in an environment where their second language (L2; English) was the majority societal language and returned to their native language (L1; Japanese) environment after the ...

On the basis of data from the Russian National Corpus, we analyze the mean- ings and structure of the syntactic construction observed in phrases like durak durakom ‘fool-nom.sg fool-ins.sg’, which we term the ‘NOM∼INS construction’. We argue that the construction constitutes a network of three closely related subcategories, which we refer to as ‘Extreme’, ‘Paragon’ and ‘Discourse Change’. It is ...

En este trabajo intentamos profundizar en el estudio de la construcción “gerundio + diminutivo”, sobre la que no parece haber mucha bibliografía especializada. Utilizaremos los dos corpora de Mark Davis que están enfocados en hablas modernas del español (“Now” y “Web/Dialects”), para ver cuán frecuente es este fenómeno, dónde y cómo se produce. A través del análisis de algunos ejemplos concretos ...

Learning new content and vocabulary in a foreign language can be particularly difficult. Yet, there are educational programs that require people to study in a language they are not native speakers of. For this reason, it is important to understand how these learning processes work and possibly differ from native language learning, as well as to develop strategies to ease this process. The current ...

Artikkelen undersøker hvordan Hamsun bruker skisser og skisseestetikker i sin prosa fra 1890 til tidlig 1900-tall. Dersom skissen via Alison Byerlys «Effortless Art: The Sketch in Nineteenth-Century Painting and Literature» kan teoretiseres som et sjangerbegrep, en teknikk, en estetikk og som et memento for hukommelsen (aide-mémoire), kan skissen sies å ha en rik og variert bruk i denne modernistiske ...

The aim of this article is to present the first results of a dialectological expedition undertaken by undergraduate and postgraduate students from the University of Tromsø to the Ter Coast of the White Sea. The paper presents some historical and ethnographical facts from two small villages, Varzuga and Umba. The people in these villages speak Pomor dialects which are poorly investigated but interesting ...