The main focus of this thesis is the manner in which Doris Lessing and J.M Coetzee construct their identities in their life writings. While Lessing has written a “classical” autobiography using the first person and past tense, Coetzee has opted for a more fictional version using the third person and the present tense. These different approaches offer us a unique opportunity to look into the manner ...

This article proposes a structural explanation of the fact that in the perfective form, the verb ser is identical to ir. It is argued that internally ir is built over the verb ser, and the element that distinguishes them semantically displaces to a high position, in such a way that the lower copy left behind it is ignored for the purposes of morphophonological materialisation. ...

Denne komparative funksjonsanalysen undersøker to religiøse billedprogram fra 1600-tallet slik de framstår i dag. Fokus er på kristendommen og kristen kunst i Roma, Italia, representert ved Il Gesù, og islam og islamsk kunst i Edirne, Tyrkia, representert ved Selimiye-moskeen. Fellesrommets utsmykning står sentralt i begge bygningene, men det er løst forskjellig kunstnerisk. Fokus for denne teksten ...

What is imagined and what is real? These are relevant questions in the fantasy novel Ilmmiid gaskkas (2013), written by Sami author Máret Ánne Sara and translated into English by Laura A. Janda as In Between Worlds (2016). The narrative depicts parallel stories, set above and below ground, and highlights an imbalance between our world on earth and that of our neighbours, the ulda-people in the ...

Bilingualism has been shown to affect the structure of the brain, including cortical regions related to language. Less is known about subcortical structures, such as the basal ganglia, which underlie speech monitoring and language selection, processes that are crucial for bilinguals, as well as other linguistic functions, such as grammatical and phonological acquisition and processing. ...

It is often claimed that languages with more non-native speakers tend to become morphologically simpler, presumably because non-native speakers learn the language imperfectly. A growing number of studies support this claim, but there is a dearth of experiments that evaluate it and the suggested explanatory mechanisms. We performed a large-scale experiment which directly tested whether imperfect ...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to show that the neo-documentary – or complimentary – approach in Library and Information Science by no means is conservative, but highly necessary also in today’s digitized media landscape. An example from a digitized photo archive is chosen to demonstrate the importance of a complimentary analysis that considers both material aspects as well as social and ...

This thesis aims to showcase how one can incorporate disability representation in literature in the classroom by teaching Mark Haddon’s The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon. These novels should be utilised in schools to have disability literature represented whilst simultaneously improving pupils’ metacognition. This thesis has analysed and reflected ...

This paper explains the polysemy of Russian verbal prefixes through their position in the VP. The lexical entry remains constant throughout all the uses of a given prefix, while the structure into which a prefix is inserted varies.