How is the Arctic represented in modern crime fiction written by a female glaciologist, meterologist and polar explorer? Monica Kristensen is the author of a new, critically acclaimed, series of crime novels set in Svalbard. The first four novels of the series are Hollendergraven (2007, The Dutchman's Grave), Kullunge (2008, Coal Baby), Operasjon Fritham (2009, Operation Fritham), Den døde i Barentsburg ...

The goal of this thesis deals with an examination regarding the range of phonological processes regarding the resolutions of different types of hiatus contexts in different morphosyntactic environments. This thesis embraces the examination of the hiatuses in word margins where the vowel /a/ occupies the position as V1 or V2, and interacts with the rest of the vowels of the Spanish system /e i o u/. ...

Bilingualism has been shown to contribute to increased resilience against cognitive aging. One of the key brain structures linked to memory and dementia symptom onset, the hippocampus, has been observed to adapt in response to bilingual experience – at least in healthy individuals. However, in the context of neurodegenerative pathology, it is yet unclear what role previous bilingual experience ...

Hvorfor drage til Paris for at arbejde med et dansk sogns historie? Dette spørgsmål rejsste lokalhistorikeren Per Gammelgaard i sin anmeldelse af en antologi vedr. nye strømninger indenfor dansk lokalhistorie.1 Spørgsmålet var specielt møntet på mit bidrag, hvor jeg skrev om hvad dansk lokal- historie kunne hente i den franske historievidenskabelige tradition ved navn Annales-skolen. Man ...

This article explores authenticity, immersion, and heritage in two historical video games, Svoboda 1945: Liberation and Train to Sachsenhausen. The two games use different strategies when inviting understanding, emotional attachment, and immersive experiences of past events. We draw upon a critical, self-reflective analysis of the design process and a comparison of both games. Our aim is to expand ...

In bilingual communities, social interactions take place in both single- and mixed-language contexts. Some of the information shared in multilingual conversations, such as interlocutors’ personal information, is often required in consequent social encounters. In this study, we explored whether the autobiographical information provided in a single-language context is better remembered than in an ...

The thesis investigates artistic utterances of Petr Pavlenskii through the prism of paradigm of iurodstvo.

Undersøkelsen bygger på 3413 mellomnorske diplom med 1114 eksempel på akkusativ med infinitiv. Disse fins etter sanseverb og láta ‘la’ liksom tilsvarende konstruksjon i moderne norsk, men dessuten etter utsagns-, viljes- og tankeverb. Artikkelen behandler kasus på det logiske subjektet for infinitiven, utelatelse av infinitiven vera ‘være’, manglende akkusativledd, bruk av infinitivsmerke, valget ...

When we use language, we draw on a finite stock of lexical and functional meanings and grammatical structures to assign meanings to expressions of arbitrary complexity. According to the Principle of Compositionality, the meanings of complex expressions are a function of constituent meanings and syntax, and are generated by the recursive application of one or more composition operations. Given ...

The present study investigates the relationship between historical linguistics and language typology in Russian temporal adverbials. It is argued that temporal adverbials with v ‘in(to)’ are typologically unusual, since they are at variance with Leonard Talmy’s generalization that the semantics of closed-class elements tend to be magnitude-neutral (“topological”), rather than magnitude-sensitive ...