Some verbs in Spanish present in their non-finite verb form of past participles the possibility of possessing both a regular and an irregular form: 'Freído'/'frito'(fried), 'imprimido'/'impreso' (printed), etc. It is well known that the past participle may function both as a verb and as an adjective, and this universality makes it particularly interesting to observe how these doublets of participles ...

Overordnet problemstilling: Hvordan har publikums forståelse av Værøygjenstandenes motiver endret seg fra senmiddelalderen til perioden fra 1800 til 1820? Hovedoppgaven er en resepsjonsanalyse av en altertavle fra 1700-tallet i den gamle kirken på Værøy. Tavlens predella prydes av fem engelske alabastrelieffer, her omtalt som Værøy-gjenstandene, fra 1430-tallet. Hovedfagsoppgaven rekonstruerer, på ...

Forvrengning av virkeligheten for reindriften på Kola er et hinder for å løse interne problem og inviterer til å flytte ansvaret over på ytre krefter.

The article gives an overview of the Saami language situation in Russia, there people use four Kola Saami languages or at least have some competence in them (Kildin Saami, Ter Saami, Skolt Saami and Akkala Saami). Since the 1990's, also North Saami has been used among Kola Saami community members. Today, all four Kola Saami languages are seriously threatened by a language shift from Saami to Russian. ...

This article investigates public architecture in Sápmi from the 1970s until today, with particular emphasis on building materials and their discourse. Although the materials chosen for clothing or for revealed construction follow Nordic and inter¬national architectonic trends, the wood, stone, concrete and glass are ascribed a set of meanings to fit the Sami context. The question is to what degree ...

El uso del gerundio no perifrástico en oraciones independientes, es decir no subordinadas a un predicado principal, ha sido descrito muy poco en la gramática del español. Creo que el uso que los hablantes hacen de esta construcción en narraciones cortas ofrece una interesante aproximación al estudio de las estrategias afectivas que usan los hablantes en el discurso. En consecuencia, se propone ...

In his book from 1865 Johan Kulstad tells the story of a hunting expedition to Spitzbergen in 1853. The mother ship disappears, and in desperation Kulstad and his six men starts rowing their small hunting boat back to Norway. After six days of incredible suffering, they are rescued by a Danish ship a few miles off the coast of Finnmark. After outlining the main sides of this story, the article ...

This paper discusses if place names can be used to construct and express identity, with a focus on the Norwegian names of farms and parishes. Since the Norwegian Place Name Act came into existence in 1991, the many appeals in regard to official spellings as decided by the authorities give clear indication that Norwegians have different opinions of how the names of farms and parishes should be spelled ...