The purpose of this dissertation is to study the ways in which Shelley’s lyrical drama, Hellas, has been received, and to show how the poem belongs within the Shelley canon, both structurally and thematically. Hellas is a drama inspired by the Greek insurrection against Turkey in the 1820s, and the action is seen from the Turkish sultan Mahmud’s point of view. This enables Shelley to focus both ...

Prosjektet er basert på erfaringspedagogikk med målsetting om at elevene skal utvikle sosiologisk fantasi. Prosjektet gjennomføres i to 9.klasser på en stor byskole i Tromsø tre uker i 1981 og tar utgangspunkt i 2. verdenskrig. Etter hvert blir det klart at nåtida må med for å skape en subjektiv forankring hos elevene. Det siste skal motvirke instrumentalisme i læringsprosessen. Utgangspunktet er ...

A number of European languages have undergone a change from object-verb to verb-object order. We focus on the change in English and Icelandic, showing that while the structural change was the same, it took place at different times and different ways in the two languages, triggered by different E-language changes. As seen from the English viewpoint, low-level facts of inflection morphology may express ...

This is an introduction to a special volume of Nordlyd available at http://www.ub.uit.no/munin/nordlyd/. It outlines those aspects of Slavic verbal morphology which are of relevance to the papers in the volume, explaining various background assumptions, analytic motivations, and glossing conventions along the way, with reference to the papers in the volume. A full list of abbreviations for all the ...

This article discusses the formation of imperatives in Norwegian. It focuses on the cases in which phonological well-formedness requirements interfere with imperative formation. Several attested solutions are presented and receive an optimality theoretic analysis. Some speakers invoke a purely phonological solution, e.g. sonorant devoicing. Others borrow from elsewhere in the paradigm, e.g. taking ...

In a study of three Norwegian/English bilingual siblings, their strategies for acquiring past tense of verbs in both languages were examined. Elicitation tests were performed in both languages and the children’s performance and error patterns were examined. These results were then compared to data from monolingual English and Norwegian speaking children. The results are discussed within the framework ...