Depending on the theory of language employed, the paradigmatic and lexical variation associated with a given composite form-meaning pair is treated in different ways. First, variation can be treated as independent of the constructional semantics, an approach typical of modular theories. Second, paradigmatic variation can be considered indicative of constructional semantics; its variation constituting ...

Ottar Brox gjekk bort tidleg i 2024, etter eit langt liv som forskar, politikar og samfunnsdebattant. Han reiste ei rekkje viktige debattar om norsk samfunnsutvikling, med fokus på sentralisering, fiskeripolitikk, sosial ulikskap og arbeidsinnvandring. Dette er ein kommentar til Ottar Brox sitt perspektiv på lokal utvikling.

This study examines the political and demographic trends in Northern Norway and Northern Sweden, regions often perceived as distinct due to their peripheral status. Despite some differences, significant similarities exist in their political and demographic developments. Both regions have been historically dominated by social democratic parties, although with stronger support in Northern Sweden. ...

Theories of sentence planning (Linear vs. Hierarchical Incrementality) differ in their assumptions about how much conceptual information speakers require to initiate linguistic encoding. This picture description study tested whether speakers’ selection of starting points for their sentences is influenced by the availability of information about a referent (perceptual accessibility) and by ...

In this concluding chapter of the book Managing Nordic Local Governments: Paradoxes and Challenges of the Municipal Chief Executive, we present the main findings in relation to the Nordic municipal chief executive officer (MCEO) model of embeddedness. The MCEO role is discussed in relation to each of the seven conditions: the local–national welfare state, the governance model, regional dynamics and ...

This article gives an overview of the word order patterns found in the Nordic Word Order Database (NWD), providing maps that illustrate variation in argument placement and verb placement across the North Germanic languages. All investigated phenomena show variable word order in at least one of the languages, and categorical word order in other languages, considering at least one of the investigated ...

The article follows the genealogy of what is referred to as “Sami national sports” in the Murmansk region from the establishment of Bolshevik power in the early 1920s to the present day. It highlights three periods (the 1920s and 1930s, characterised by the transformation of traditional play into Soviet forms of physical activity), the 1970s and the 1980s when national sports were revitalised in ...

Because of its particular history of institutionalization, American studies in Norway has come to fill a unique role in higher education, one that requires broader recognition to secure the field a stable future. In this article, Falke connects the past of American studies in Norway to its present by focusing on three founding moments. These three are: the establishment of the Fulbright Program, ...

På 1200-tallet ble to store mangeromsanlegg bygget mindre enn en dagsmarsj fra hverandre på nordvestkysten av Varangerhalvøya. Anleggene var i bruk samtidig over en periode på 150 år. Mye tyder på at de ble etablert av representanter for de to fremste rivaler i middelalderens maktspill om land og ressurser i nord.

Within linguistic theory, the division of labour between syntax and the lexicon has been a central issue for debate among different architectures of grammar, roughly corresponding to the distinction between memorization and rule governed aspects of language competence. In this article, I give some historical context for these debates, concluding that differences in architectural assumptions are ...