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    • V-to-I movement in the absence of morphological cues: Evidence from adult and child Northern Norwegian 

      Bentzen, Kristine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2003)
      Several people have pointed out that there seems to be a close correlation between inflectional morphology and verb movement (see e.g. Kosmeijer 1986, Holmberg & Platzack 1988). The nature of this correlation has been claimed to go in both directions. Vikner (1994, 1995) and Rohrbacher (1999) have both suggested that the verb can only move to an inflectional head if the morphology is rich enough. ...

    • Valence, arousal and concreteness mediate word association 

      Buades-Sitjar, Francisco; Planchuelo Fernández, Clara; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      <p><b>Background:</b> Given the impact of lexical properties such as valence, arousal, and concreteness in language processing, recent computational methods have been designed to extrapolate these values from different sources, such as word co-occurrence or word association corpora. These methods have been proven to be particularly successful approaches to extract lexical features from word ...

    • Vandringer i refleksjonslandskapet. – Om Knut Hamsuns "På gjengrodde stier" 

      Wærp, Henning Howlid (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2009)

    • Variable V2 in Norwegian Heritage Language: An effect of crosslinguistic influence? 

      Westergaard, Marit; Lohndal, Terje; Lundquist, Bjørn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-05-28)
      This paper discusses possible attrition of verb second (V2) word order in Norwegian heritage language by investigating a corpus of spontaneous speech produced by 50 2nd–4th generation heritage speakers in North America. The study confirms previous findings that V2 word order is generally stable in heritage situations, but nevertheless finds approximately 10% V2 violations. The cases of non-V2 word ...

    • Variable verb second in Norwegian main and embedded clauses 

      Westendorp, Maud (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-17)
      Norwegian has verb second (V2) word order in main but not embedded clauses. Although as a first approximation V2 is a phenomenon characteristic of root clauses, it has long been known that it occurs also in a restricted set of embedded clauses in Norwegian, as in many, if not all, of the other North Germanic languages. Many Norwegian dialects in addition allow deviations from the standard V2 word ...

    • Variation across individuals and domains in Norwegian heritage language 

      Lundquist, Bjørn; Anderssen, Merete; Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-22)
      This paper investigates spontaneous production from 50 speakers of Norwegian heritage language in the Corpus of American Nordic Speech and studies the interplay between four linguistic properties: possessives and double definiteness, verb second word order, grammatical gender, and the amount of language mixing. It is shown that speakers cluster in the sense that some speakers produce more Norwegian-like ...

    • Variation and change in Italian phonology: On the mutual dependence of grammar and lexicon in Optimality Theory 

      Krämer, Martin (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2016-12-01)
      In this paper I discuss the influence of language acquisition and borrowing on the reorganisation of grammar and lexicon in the development from Latin into Italian. We will have a look at the historical sequencing of the introduction of new phonological processes, velar palatalization, mid vowel breaking, and lateral palatalization, and how they conspire to create new contrasts or reintroduce contrasts ...

    • Variation and change in Norwegian wh-questions: The role of the complementizer som 

      Westergaard, Marit; Vangsnes, Øystein A; Lohndal, Terje (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-18)
      In this paper, we consider variation in Verb Second (V2) word order in wh-questions across Norwegian dialects by investigating data from the Nordic Syntax Database (NSD), which consists of acceptability judgments collected at more than 100 locations in Norway. We trace the geographical distribution of the two main variables: phrasal vs. monosyllabic wh-elements (the latter argued to be heads) and ...

    • Variations on a theme : the role of music in Toni Morrison´s Jazz 

      Berre, Tone (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2008-11-17)
      African American music and contemporary African American literature are connected both thematically and structurally. This thesis examines the various ways in which Toni Morrison draws on the cultural traditions of her ancestors, especially blues and jazz music, in creating her sixth novel, Jazz. My analysis includes the important contexts of the history and culture of black Americans from slavery ...

    • "Váikkuheapmi - hástaleapmi - ovdáneapmi" Vuoi dan Kárenina ja Mu ártegis eallin váldopersovnnaid ovdáneapmi sosiála oktavuođain 

      Partapuoli, Maret Kare-Elle (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2014-11-17)
      Dutkamušastan guorahalan Vuoi dan Kárenina ja Mu ártegis eallin váldopersovnnaid ovdáneami. Dutkančuolmma juogán golmma váldooassái; váldopersovnna-, váikkuheaddji- ja ovdáneami guorahallamii. Váldopersovnna guorahallamis geahčadan persovnnaid siskkáldas ja olgguldas iešvuođaid. Guktuid teakstadujiin lea váikkuheaddji, nu gohčoduvvon katalysáhtor, guhte váikkuha sihke persovnnaid ja muitalusa juona. ...

    • Venezia-charteret. Kulturminner og bygningsbevaring 

      Helland, Ånhild Carina (Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-03)
      Dette er en case-studie der jeg forsøker å se på hvordan bygningsbevaring fungerer i praksis, og hvordan det harmonerer med Venezia-charteret som utgangspunkt. De tre casene er valgt ut fordi de representerer ulike sider ved bevaringsarbeid, og dermed også ulike problemstillinger. Glasgow School of Art, et bygg som blir regnet som Charles Rennie Mackintosh's mesterverk, stod ferdig i 1909. I 2014 ...

    • Verb particles in Older Icelandic 

      Hróarsdóttir, Thorbjörg (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2008)

    • The verb phrase: argument structure and particle placement 

      Lundquist, Bjørn (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-22)
      The Scandinavian languages show fairly little variation with respect to the internal syntax of the verb phrase. In general, the verb phrase is head initial, i.e., the direct object always follows the main verb (VO­order)

    • Verb placement in clauses with initial adverbial 'maybe' 

      Bentzen, Kristine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)

    • Verb placement in embedded sentences in Faroese 

      Westendorp, Maud (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-01-25)
      In this article, I present data from the Nordic Word order Database (NWD) on word order in Faroese embedded clauses. I discuss the methods used in the data elicitation, data analysis, and present a first overview of the patterns in the dataset. The NWD contains a total of 4,752 embedded clauses elicited from 33 native Faroese speakers, focussing on embedded <i>wh</i>-questions, and the placement of ...

    • Verb placement in main and embedded clauses 

      Bentzen, Kristine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)

    • Verb placement in relative clauses 

      Bentzen, Kristine (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)
      The Scandinavian languages generally display V2 in main clauses (but see Bentzen 2014a, who discusses clauses introduced by maybe, which constitute an exception to this pattern). However, in embedded contexts, V2 is only available in certain restricted contexts, such as certain embedded that-clauses (see Bentzen 2014b). In most other embedded contexts, such as embedded wh-questions and relative ...

    • Verb placement variation in Swedish and Danish 

      Westendorp, Maud (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-01-17)
      This article gives a summary of the Swedish and Danish data on verb placement in the Nordic Word order Database (NWD; Lundquist et al. 2019). The data were collected using an elicited production paradigm. I discuss variation in verb placement in Danish in four constructions: in embedded clauses with respect to adverbs (embedded V2), in main clauses with respect to preverbal and sentence-medial ...

    • Verb Second in Norwegian: Variation and Acquisition 

      Lohndal, Terje; Westergaard, Marit; Vangsnes, Øystein A (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)
      This chapter provides an overview of the micro-variation in Norwegian when it comes to Verb Second (V2) word order, both in the various dialects and in the two written standards. The variation is dependent on a number of factors, including clause type, type of initial element, and information structure. This overview demonstrates a rich inventory of micro-systems, raising the question of how children ...

    • Verb Second Word Order in Norwegian Heritage Language: Syntax and Pragmatics 

      Westergaard, Marit; Lohndal, Terje (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2019)
      In this paper, we investigate verb second (V2) word order in Norwegian heritage language spoken in the United States, i.e., in a situation where the heritage speakers have English as their dominant language. We show that not only the syntax of V2 may be affected in a heritage language situation, but that the number of contexts for this word order may also be severely reduced (i.e., non-subject-initial ...