I verb som написать ‘skrive’ og сварить ‘koke’ pleier man å si at prefiksene er tomme, siden slike verb (med unntak av aspekt) har samme betydning som de tilsvarende uprefigerte verbene. Vårt utgangspunkt er i stedet hypotesen om at disse prefiksene er ikke tomme, men danner et verbklassifikasjonssystem som ligner på tallordklassifikasjonssystemene i språk som Yucatec Maya (Lucy 1992). Majsak (2005) ...

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 ...

We are pleased to present Aspect in Slavic: Creating Time, Creating Grammar as a special issue of the Journal of Slavic Linguistics. Here we offer some of the research results of the CLEAR (Cognitive Linguistics: Empirical Approaches to Russian) group at the University of Tromsø and our collaborators. This research was sponsored by a grant from the Norwegian Research Council for a project entitled ...

Summary Discussion surrounding the future of architecture has generated widespread interest in the last decades. During these years a vast amount of ideas concerning flexible architecture have been produced. The term flexible architecture has been generally understood as an architecture that responds to changes. The flexible architecture has been increasingly granted attention by today`s architects ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show why studies of public libraries, regarding their possible contribution in creating social capital, are important for social capital research in general, and are important for library practice in particular. Design/methodology/approach – Building on the latest theoretical developments and empirical findings of social capital research, the role of the ...

Empirical research on public libraries and social capital has primarily been oriented toward discovering how libraries contribute to social capital in local contexts, rather than contributing to solving the theoretical puzzles of the social capital literature. In spite of this, it has produced interesting findings that align with new developments in social capital research. These findings emphasize ...

Med utgangspunkt i en casestudie av Hammerfest folkebibliotek undersøker denne masteroppgaven sammenhengen mellom den digitale samfunnsutviklingen og bruken av folkebibliotek. Målet med casestudien er å undersøke hvordan den i økende grad digitale hverdagen påvirker bruken av folkebiblioteket, og hvorvidt biblioteket som sosial møteplass og et sted som tilbyr kulturelle opplevelser er viktige aspekter ...

Dát dutkkus gieđahallá davvisámegiela nulla subjeavttaid. Davvisámegiella gullá gielaide, main subjeaktasátni ii álo leat oidnosis. Dán barggus iskkan, mo dán sáhttá čilget generatiivva syntávssa vuođul. Dutkansuorgin lea minimalismma prográmma. Subjeavtta ja vearbba gaskasaš soabadeapmi lea dehálaš unna pro oktavuođas ja lean dás čájehan, mo unna pro doibmá. Infinihttahámit gusket ges stuorra PRO:ii ...

This thesis looks at an excerpt from Peter Hulme’s book Colonial Encounters, “Prospero and Caliban”, where Hulme explores the notion that Prospero, like Shakespeare, is dramatist and creator of theatrical effects. Like Hulme, I believe that there are two plays being enacted, yet I do not share his opinion regarding Prospero as a stage director or a playwright, nor that the play within the play is a ...

Phonologists have long debated the role of phonetics in phonological theories. A key point in this debate is whether or not phonological computation is to be regarded as modally-independent, that is, whether or not facts about the articulatory and perceptual organs are regarded as external to the phonology. This dissertation argues for a form of grounded phonology, by drawing on findings in ...