Oppgaven er knyttet til den samiske dialekten i Ofoten og Sør-Troms, hva som har påvirket denne dialekten opp gjennom tidene og hvilke påvirkningsfaktorer som har formet språksituasjonen. Oppgaven gjør også rede for rammene og vilkårene for samisk språk i området, og hvordan bruken har utviklet seg i løpet av 1900-tallet. Dialekten i Ofoten og Sør-Troms er den sørligste og vestligste dialekten av ...

Denne mastergradsoppgaven handler om tospråklighet/flerspråklighet i Sør-Varanger kommune. Historisk sett har Sør-Varanger kommune vært en flerspråklig kommune. Folkegruppene: nordmenn, samer, skoltesamer, kvener og russere har levd i felleskap i dette området og mange har behersket to eller flere språk. I nyere tid har enda flere nasjonaliteter, med sine språk, flyttet til kommunen. Forskningsmålet ...

Many languages have specialized locative words or morphemes translating roughly into words like ‘front,’ ‘back,’ ‘top,’ ‘bottom,’ ‘side,’ and so on. Often, these words are used instead of more specialized adpositions to express spatial meanings corresponding to ‘behind,’ ‘above,’ and so on. I argue, on the basis of a cross-linguistic survey of such expressions, that in many cases they motivate a ...

One of the major difficulties for students of Russian as a foreign language is to understand the use of unidirectional and non-directional motion verbs like идти and ходить. But when they have finally mastered the directionality distinction it comes as a surprise that it only occurs in unprefixed motion verbs. Why is there no distinction between unidirectional and non-directional prefixed verbs ...

In this thesis Doris Lessing’s experimental autobiography The Memoirs of a Survival is explored, and I aim to show that Lessing has experimented with the combination of autobiography and fiction in a rather complicated manner; by testing of the relationship between identities and characters, by reconstructing her childhood memories as if experienced by someone else, by exploring possible consequences ...

En analyse av romanen Medea i ee deti (Medea og hennes barn) og hvordan de ble preget av sovjetsamfunnet.

The most controversial and divisive political issue in Britain in the last decade was the decision to go to war in Iraq. The legitimisation and justification for making this decision was argued through a carefully considered discourse constructed by Prime Minister Tony Blair and his associates. A key role in mediating and manifesting the discourse of Blair was played out by the media. If Blair was ...

This research investigates information structuring in Dagbani, a Gur language spoken in Ghana. It is claimed that the particles ka, n and la are very central in information packaging in Dagbani. I claim that whilst the post verbal particle la, marks background on the linguistic material that precedes it and new information on what follows it (where the background does not have to be presupposed and ...

In this thesis, I discuss loanword adaptation in Akan. I show that in Akan loanword adaptation, two major phonological processes such as vowel epenthesis and consonant deletion apply. While vowel epenthesis occurs in word-initial clusters, word-medial clusters and word-final obstruents/clusters, consonant deletion applies to only word-final clusters. The sonority level of the target consonants ...