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Verb-particles: placement with respect to reflexive pronouns
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-08-22)As was discussed in the section on verb particles in active clauses, the verb particle always precedes the direct objects in Swedish, while it often follows the direct object in the other Nordic varieties, especially when the direct object is a nonstressed pronoun. When it comes to simple reflexive direct objects (sig) [1] , the pattern in Swedish is more complex. Depending on verb class, the ... -
Verbal Prefixation and Metaphor: How Does Metaphor Interact with Constructions?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2013)This article argues that metaphorical and non-metaphorical content find different expression on the constructional level. The hypothesis is supported by two empirical case studies of the Russian Locative Alternation verbs, based on the data from the Russian National Corpus: the unprefixed verb sypat’ ‘strew’ (which does not have an aspectual partner) and the unprefixed verb gruzit’ ‘load’ and its ... -
Verbal Prefixation in Russian: A Rebuttal
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2015)Zaliznjak & Mikaèljan 2014 is a critique of the model of Russian aspect found in Janda 2012 and Janda et al. 2013. In this rebuttal I give a brief overview of my model of Russian aspect and then address the criticisms made by Zaliznjak & Mikaèljan. I begin by examining the four assumptions stated by Zaliznjak & Mikaèljan, which I find to be unnecessary and lacking in theoretical gounding. Their ... -
Verbal Prefixes in Russian: Conceptual structure versus syntax
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2014-06-09)At a first glance, the variety of possible denotations of a given prefix might appear a chaotic set of idiomatic meanings, e.g. the prefix za- may refer to the beginning of an action, movement to a position behind an object, a brief deviation from a path, or completion of an action. I propose a unified analysis of prefixes, where the differences in meaning are claimed to arise from different syntactic ... -
Verbal Symbols and Demonstrations Across Modalities
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-05-22)In this paper, I develop a new theory of the ingredients of semantic composition for the verb phrase, building on work in Ramchand (2018). I argue that the essential properties of this new approach make possible a new rapprochement between the theoretical analyses of symbolic verbal meaning across the visual and auditory modalities. The innovation of the new theory is that it partitions the verb ... -
Vi må halde kontakten med russiske akademikarar og intellektuelle
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2022-03-19)«Eit kvart folk, og særleg det russiske, vil klare å skilje ekte patriotar frå avskum og forrædarar og kjem ganske enkelt til å spytte dei ut som eit insekt som tilfeldigvis har hamna i munnen.» <p> <p>Med disse orda vende den russiske presidenten seg til folket i Russland for nokre dagar sidan. Språket er grovt, og meldinga er klar: Har du kontakt med vesten, skal det gå deg ille.<p> <p>Krigen ... -
Vi må halde kontakten med russiske intellektuelle
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2022-03-18)Krigen i Ukraina har til fulle vist kva slags regime vi har i vårt største granneland. Russland er styrt av menneske som har rana til seg store verdiar frå folket, og som ikkje skyr noko middel i den blodige krigen dei har sett i gang.<p> <p>I ein slik situasjon er det forståeleg at somme tar til orde for å kutte alt samarbeid med Russland. Eg vil argumentere for at det ikkje er klokt. Eg vil ... -
Vinning og tap: ei kvalitativ tilnærming til språkbytte og språkbevaring i ei nordnorsk kystbygd
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The Vitae of Nil Sorskii’s “Sobornik”: Translation or Periphrasis?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2003)This paper attempts to show that Nil Sorskii, the author of the well-known three-volume “Sobornik”, in compiling this collection of ancient Greek vitae used Greek texts as well as Slavonic translations. He compared the Slavonic texts with the Greek originals and corrected their difficult archaic language, thus turning it into the understandable simple Russian language of his own time. -
vo-ov-variasjon i nordsamisk: hva kan lia sápmi fortelle oss?
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-21)I denne artikkelen undersøker jeg vekslinga mellom VO- og OV-ordstilling i nordsamisk talemål. Jeg har gjort søk i LIA Sápmi – Sámegiela hállangiellakorpus. Resultatene mine viser ikke uventet at VO overordnet sett er det mest frekvente mønstret. Men i materialet mitt finner jeg også mange tilfeller av SAuxOV-ordstilling, spesielt i setninger med sammensatte verbformer hvor hovedverbet er i ... -
Voice Markers in Septuagint Greek in the Light of Hebrew Interference: A Corpus-Based Study on the Aorist System of the Book of Genesis*
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-20)In this paper, we examine the behaviour of so-called passive and middle aorist forms in the Greek reflected in the Genesis of the Septuagint. The Septuagint, and Biblical Greek more generally, displays a considerable aberration with respect to other varieties of Ancient Greek regarding the relative frequency of passive vis-à-vis middle aorist forms. Here, we explore this feature of Septuagint Greek ... -
Voice Onset Time in multilingual speakers: Italian heritage speakers in Germany with L3 English
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-07-01)This study brings together two previously largely independent fields of multilingual language acquisition: heritage language and third language (L3) acquisition. We investigate the production of fortis and lenis stops in semi-naturalistic speech in the three languages of 20 heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian with German as a majority language and English as L3. The study aims to identify the extent ... -
Vowel perception in multilingual speakers: ERP evidence from Polish, English and Norwegian
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-10-12)Introduction: Research on Mismatch Negativity (MMN) in monolingual and bilingual speakers has shown significant differences in L1 versus L2 phonemic perception. In this study, we examined whether the MMN response is sensitive to the differences between L1, L2 and L3/Ln.<p> <p>Methods: We compared bioelectrical brain activity in response to changes in pairs of vowels produced in three different ... -
Vowel reduction in Russian: no phonetics in phonology
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2012)Much recent work concentrates on the role of sonority in the phenomenon of vowel reduction, capitalizing on the two facts that reduction involves raising and/or shortening and that higher vowels and schwa are normally interpreted as having low sonority. This paper presents a different approach to vowel reduction in Standard Russian. It is proposed that the apparent sonority-driven effects in ... -
Wallace Stegner and the Western Environment : Hydraulics, Placelessness, and (Lack of) Identity
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2011)This article is chiefly concerned with Wallace Stegner’s ideas of aridity as the key to the understanding of the history and culture of the American West. It first examines the arguments of some major books published in the 1980s that helped strengthen Stegner’s conviction that the West was heading towards environmental disaster due to the rapidly increasing depletion of its rivers and aquifers, a ... -
"Wandering in Fact and Fiction: Wordsworth´s Wanderer and Christopher Thomson"
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2018)Discussing Wordsworth’s poem “Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” Geoffrey Tillotson writes that “Goody herself . . . could not have given a more telling account of her way of life” (7). I wonder. Goody Blake, like other cottagers, had ample time to think, spinning days away in a house by herself. She may have participated more fully in the life of her community than Wordsworth did and therefore been able ... -
War/Game: Studying Relations Between Violent Conflict, Games, and Play
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2016-12)Games and war have always stood in a close relationship to one another. From the ancient Chinese Go, via various iterations of chess to contemporary digital simulation games, or from classical Roman gladiator battles, via martial-arts competitions to today’s first-person shooters, the skills employed and the structures limiting participants’ actions and perceptions point to a variety of equivalences ... -
Ways of being a dative across Romance varieties
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)In this article, we argue that the term dative can correspond to objects of a very different linguistic nature, even in typologically close languages. Specifically, in syntactic terms datives can be different from accusatives or identical to them at some point in the derivation; in the latter case, clashes between 3rd person clitics emerge. Our approach, then, argues that clitic incompatibilities ... -
West Greenlandic antipassive
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2003)On the basis of syntactic and morphological evidence from West Greenlandic (WG) antipassive (AP) constructions, I argue against the view that the AP affix is nominal. The fact that the transitivizing and the antipassive affixes in a number of verbs are in complementary distribution, leads me to conclude that they both realize a light verb, transitivizing v, one on the ERG-NOM pattern, the other on ... -
Wh-less degree questions
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)As described in Endresen (1985) and Bull (1987) Norwegian dialects in Trøndelag and North Norway have a way of forming degree questions without the use of a wh-expression and without the syntax that normally accompanies wh-questions. Taken at face value the construction takes the form of regular yes/no-questions. Consider the pair in (1) showing a Standard Norwegian degree question (1a) compared to ...
