In Spanish causative constructions with <i>dejar</i> ‘let’ and <i>hacer</i> ‘make’ the subject of the embedded infinitive verb can appear in the accusative or the dative case. This case alternation has been accounted for by resorting to the notion of direct vs. indirect causation. Under this account, the accusative clitic with a transitive verb denotes direct causation while the dative clitic with ...

This paper contributes to the study of transitivity as a general property of the clause. Unlike most previous work on the subject, however, transitivity in the present article is used to study a lexical alternation, namely the two causative predicates dejar ‘let’ and hacer ‘make’ in Spanish. To do this, I use the transitivity index (TI), a weighted continuous measure of transitivity based on Hopper ...

Matías Ruíz Blanco (1643-1705/1708?) was a Franciscan friar who served as a missionary, historian and linguist in colonial Venezuela. Born in the village of Estepa in the Spanish region of Andalusia, he was devoted from early youth to religious practice. He was most probably educated in the Convent of Grace. By the age of 23 he was already recognized as a teacher of philosophy at the Monastery of ...

Derivatives ending in ttele are used with a passive meaning in the Kven dialects of Porsanger and Nordreisa. This use is a result of language contact with Sami. As in the Sami model of adversative passive, these Kven passive derivatives express an unfavorable event. They are used with a subject argument which has a semantic role as a patient or experiencer and an agent expressed in the allative case. ...

Ved å se på situasjonen i Sverige, Danmark og Finland synliggjøres forklaringen på hvorfor norske bibliotek har sakket akterut i etterkrigstida. Dette gjøres for bedre forståelse av Tromsø biblioteks utvikling. Forklaringsfaktorene for bibliotekutviklingen på 1900-tallet kommer tydeligere fram ved å ta i bruk institusjonell teori. Gjennom ekvilibrium-modellen kommer det som er karakteristisk for ...

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 ...

In this paper I explore a long-standing issue in Russian linguistics, viz. the relationship between the so-called One-Stem System (Jakobson 1948) and the more traditional Two-Stem System from the perspective of the Usage- Based Model (Langacker 1991, 1999; Kumashiro 2000). My aim is to show that this model facilitates a synthesis between the two systems for the description of Russian conjugation. ...

Studies of the creation of social trust and social capital indicate that informal social contact has a positive effect. Some studies find that uncorrupt public institutions have positive effects on trust and social capital. Additionally, a number of papers show that public libraries have a similar effect. The mechanisms that generate trust, however, remain largely unspecified. Therefore, ...

Denne artikkelen granskar sambandet mellom trykkplassering i latinske lånord (som butikk) og partikkelverb (som gå ut), der trykkplasseringa på fyrstestavinga eller sistestavinga varierer. Med di partikkelverb har ein del av variasjon som skriv seg frå innomspråklege strukturelle faktorar, reknar me med at desse faktorane ikkje påverkar latinske ord i like stor grad. Ved å granska ikkje-syntaktisk ...

I Victoria (1898) av Knut Hamsun dør den kvinnelige hovedpersonen av tuberkulose bare 23 år gammel. Victoria er en av Hamsuns mest kjente romaner, men tuberkulosen som motiv har kun i liten grad påkalt kritikernes interesse. I denne artikkelen vil jeg drøfte hvordan fremstillingen av tuberkulose korresponderer med Hamsuns egen sykdomserfaring, samt med de rådende historiske og kulturelle forestillinger ...