In the North Germanic languages there are at least two highly interesting issues tied to passive double object verbs: 1. The promotion symmetry: both direct objects and indirect objects can be promoted to subject under passive in many North Germanic varieties. 2. Restrictions on verbs that can take indirect objects in passives: many verbs that take two objects in the active voice, cannot have both ...

Reflexive pronouns do not in carry number information, as opposed to regular object pronouns and possessive pronouns, as shown below in the contrast between third person reflexive pronouns (1­2) and first person object/reflexive pronouns (3­4)

There is a fair amount of variation between and within the Scandinavian varieties with respect to binding, anaphors and co­reference restrictions on pronouns and noun phrases. The variation between the languages has been discussed and analyzed in e.g. Holmberg and Platzack (1995) and Thráinsson (2008), and more fine­grained variation within the languages has been discussed by e.g. Tania Strahan ...

Friedrich Nietzsche’s treatise “Die Geburt der Tragödie aus dem Geiste der Musik” (1872) has, with the symbolist poet and critic Vyacheslav Ivanov as an important intermediary, exerted a strong influence on Dostoevsky scholarship which can be traced up to this day. The present short paper discusses some aspects of this tradition of interpretation.

I det siste tiåret har det vært gjennomført to forsøk med såkalt tidlig start på 2. fremmedspråk i Norge. De deltagende barneskolene tilbød i disse forsøkene undervisning i et 2. fremmedspråk etter engelsk. Evalueringene konkluderte med, etter begge forsøk, at elevene som oftest stortrives med å lære seg et 2. fremmedspråk allerede på barneskolen. Samtidig ble det avdekket et klart forskningsbehov, ...

The current study focuses on how different scales with varying demands can affect our subjective assessments. We carried out 2 experiments in which we asked participants to rate how happy or sad morphed images of faces looked. The two extremes were the original happy and original sad faces with 4 morphs in between. We manipulated language of the task—namely, half of the participants carried it ...

This article presents Gérard Genette’s concept of the paratext by defining the term and by describing its characteristics. The use of the concept in other disciplines than literary studies and for other media than printed books is discussed. The last section shows the relevance of the concept for library and information science in general and for knowledge organization, in which paratext in particular ...

The first Sámi newspaper, Sagai Muitalæggje, was established in 1903, and in 1906 the first Sámi was elected to the Norwegian parliament. Through these two events, the Sámi (the indigenous population of Norway) had their own voice heard and achieved political influence in the public sphere for the first time. What was the role and significance of libraries in this process? Anders Larsen, the editor ...

Die in der Schule als zweite Fremdsprachen gelernten Sprachen sind in Norwegen als Universitätsfächer in der Krise, darunter Deutsch. Geringe Studentenzahlen, schwache sprachliche Kompetenzen der Studienanfänger und ein auf den Lehrerberuf begrenzter Abnehmermarkt sind die Hauptherausforderungen. Gleichzeitig ruft die Wirtschaft in Norwegen nach Fachkräften, die gut Deutsch können und diese ...