På midten av 1800-tallet var Alten Copper Works, ei koppergruve i nærheten av Alta, Nord-Norges og Nordkalottens største industribedrift. Bedriften rekrutterte gruvearbeidere fra ulike deler av Norden og Europa, og etter hvert utgjorde kvenske innvandrere fra Nord-Sverige og -Finland en stor del av arbeidskraften. Artikkelen undersøker mangfoldet blant verkets arbeidere fra et sosiolingvistisk ...

Standpunktkarakterene i nynorskkommuner på Vestlandet viser en mindre gunstig utvikling i perioden mellom 2009 og 2018 enn i bokmålskommunene i samme region. Artikkelen drøfter mulige årsaker, herunder endringer i medienes språk, der nynorsk i stor grad har blitt fortrengt av bokmål og dialekter, en utvikling som er aller tydeligst i nye digitale medier.

En este trabajo exploramos dos construcciones asociadas a lecturas distributivas en las que se emplea la preposición <i>a</i>, la estructura <i>N a N</i> (<i>gota a gota, uno a uno...</i>) y la estructura <i>a D N</i> (<i>al día, a la semana, al kilómetro...</i>). Este uso distributivo de <i>a</i> es en principio inesperado, ya que, frente a la preposición <i>por</i>, no suele dar lugar por sí misma ...

The scientific method is a process of conjecture (hypothesis generation), prediction and subsequent testing in an effort to gain greater understanding. By its very nature, then, it is a process where, much more often than not, theoretical contributions are destined to be wrong. Somewhat ironically, though, being wrong is essentially the goal. By initially assuming our theory – or the one(s) we are ...

It is commonly accepted that bilinguals access lexical representations from their two languages during language comprehension, even when they operate in a single language context. Language detection mechanisms are, thus, hypothesized to operate after the stage of lexical access during visual word recognition. However, recent studies showed reduced cross-language activation when sub-lexical properties ...

Slavic studies in Norway have been shaped by specific facts that facilitated the development of the field, described in Section 1. Section 2 approaches the current state of our field in Norway from the perspectives of language teach- ing, linguistics, literature and culture, as well as publication venues and spe- cial resources for Slavists. I conclude in Section 3 with comments on current trends ...

Svalbard, or “cool edge” in Old Norse, is an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. It has no indigenous population and some 60% of its landmass is covered by ice. Yet its rich wildlife and mineral resources, as well as spectacular sights, have been attracting a great deal of commercial interest ever since Willem Barentsz discovered the archipelago in 1596 and named it Spitsbergen (“peaked mountains”). ...

This article discusses Alf Nilsen-Børsskog’s four-volume series of novels <i>Elämän jatko</i> [Continuation of life, 2004–2015], seen as the first literary works treating the Kven culture from a native perspective. Nilsen-Børsskog’s novels are analysed as constituting a “counterstory”, a term coined in the postcolonial cultural research paradigm to refer to self-representation. The Kvens have been ...