Introduction: This study investigates the heritage language performance of Turkish-German returnees upon their reintegration into Turkey and explores the impact of external factors on their proficiency in the (re-)activated heritage language (HL).<p> <p>Methods: Data collection involved the participation of 28 Turkish heritage speakers and a control group of 28 monolingual speakers. The language ...

This study considers the role of L1 phonological influence in L2 English past tense morphology production by native speakers of Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese. While these L1s share similar phonological restrictions on consonant cluster formation needed for English past tense morphology, differences arise in L1 syntax (only Mandarin lacks syntactic past) and L1 prosodic structure (only Japanese has ...

This paper discusses the role of libraries in the implementation of the Norwegianization policy towards the Sámi and Kven minorities in Norway. This question has not been written about or debated in the library history of Norway. The hypothesis is that the libraries had a dual function: they were both seen as an instrument of Norwegianization by the government, but were simultaneously places where ...

<i>Introduksjon:</i> 13. desember 2010 vedtok Tromsø kommunestyre med to tredels fleirtal følgjande: <p> <p><i>1</i>. Starte opp arbeidet med å utarbeide en handlingsplan for samisk språk i Tromsø kommune.<p> <p><i>2</i>. Handlingsplanen behandles i Tromsø kommunestyre i juni 2011 som grunnlag for å søke om å innlemme Tromsø kommune i forvaltningsområdet for samiske språk. 15 av dei 43 ...

This article deals with the holiday calendar in contemporary Russia. Up to now, it has been customary among Russian ethnologists to speak of three periods of formation and radical transformation of the Russian calendar: a) during the introduction of Christendom, b) during the rule of Peter the Great, and c) in the years following the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917. It is now appropriate to add one ...

Recent years have seen considerable debate concerning Russian feminitives, i.e. derived formations that designate female professionals, such as advokatka, advokatša, advokatessa, ženščina-advokat or advokat-ženščina that all refer to female lawyers. In this article, we investigate the use of feminitives based on data from the Araneum Russicum Maximum corpus and the Russian National Corpus. It is ...

Nearly two thousand perfective verbs in Russian are formed via the addition of so-called “empty prefixes” (čistovidovye pristavki) to imperfective base verbs. The traditional assumption that prefixes are semantically “empty” when used to form aspectual pairs is problematic because the same prefixes are clearly “non-empty” when combined with other base verbs. Though some scholars have suspected that ...

The aim of this article is to present the first results of a dialectological expedition undertaken by undergraduate and postgraduate students from the University of Tromsø to the Ter Coast of the White Sea. The paper presents some historical and ethnographical facts from two small villages, Varzuga and Umba. The people in these villages speak Pomor dialects which are poorly investigated but interesting ...

I ordskiftet om krigen i Ukraina blir det av og til hevda at Russland handlar irrasjonelt. Dette er upresist språk. Kremls problem har ikkje vore mangel på rasjonalitet, men mangel på informasjon.