As was discussed in the section on verb particles in active clauses, the verb particle always precedes the direct objects in Swedish, while it often follows the direct object in the other Nordic varieties, especially when the direct object is a non­stressed pronoun. When it comes to simple reflexive direct objects (sig) [1] , the pattern in Swedish is more complex. Depending on verb class, the ...

Just like the vast majority of the Germanic languages, the Scandinavian languages are verb second (V2) languages where the finite verb occupies the second position in declarative clauses allowing just one constituent to precede it.

I denne artikkelen undersøker jeg vekslinga mellom VO- og OV-ordstilling i nordsamisk talemål. Jeg har gjort søk i LIA Sápmi – Sámegiela hállangiellakorpus. Resultatene mine viser ikke uventet at VO overordnet sett er det mest frekvente mønstret. Men i materialet mitt finner jeg også mange tilfeller av SAuxOV-ordstilling, spesielt i setninger med sammensatte verbformer hvor hovedverbet er i ...

Tags are elements or (remnant) clauses that attach to a sentence in order to signal various speech acts, e.g. the common question tags of the type is it? isn’t it?. An affirmative tag, which is used in order for the speaker to confirm the content of the matrix clause is presented in (1). (1) Pappa kan hämta dig vid stationen, kan han nog (#1435) (Swedish) dad can fetch you with station.DEF can ...

Å velge skjønnlitteratur som skal leses i norskfaget er et sentralt didaktisk anliggende. Man må tenke på hva som kan motivere elevene, hvilket nivå elever er på og hva man ønsker de skal sitte igjen med. Svart belte er en selvbiografisk roman som gir et nyansert bilde av det å leve med spiseforstyrrelser. For protagonisten i Svart belte (2015) av Marianne Clementine Håheim, er spiseforstyrrelser ...

This master thesis presents an original analysis of how branding is produced through verbal and non-verbal communication in the context of so-called Marketing 4.0, whose main differential properties are the extensive use of digital media and a horizontal distribution on information that privileges the interaction with consumers. Both properties make establishing a brand image more crucial, and make ...

Tradisjonelt har det norske genussystemet blitt karakterisert som lite transparent. Et viktig spørsmål er om språkbrukere likevel kan være sensitive til visse egenskaper ved substantiver og bruker disse produktivt når de tildeler genus til ukjente ord. I denne artikkelen undersøker vi eksperimentelt språkbrukeres sensitivitet til fonologiske egenskaper som vi har identifisert gjennom korpusundersøkelser. ...

All over Scandinavia the negative prefix o­/u­/ó­ [1] productively attaches to passive participles (and to some extent to adjectives as well), just like e.g. un­ in English (as in un­washed). In the northern parts of the Swedish speaking area, o­ can attach to active past participles (the so­called supine) as well. In the ScanDiaSyn survey, we investigated to what extent o­ prefixation to active ...

Unbound reflexives exist in Icelandic and Faroese in contexts where an “author” or a logophoric center has been established in the discourse, as has been discussed by Maling (1984) and Sigurðsson (1990) for Icelandic, and Barnes (1986) for Faroese.

We investigate the acquisition of grammatical gender marking in German by monolingual children as well as German-Russian bilingual children who grow up in Germany as heritage speakers of Russian. We ask to what extent monolingual and bilingual children use phonological and/or structural cues to assign nominal gender, and to what extent they rely on lexical knowledge. To this end, we designed three ...