Introduction: <br> The role of public libraries in contributing to the resilience of their local communities is an underdeveloped area of research. This paper introduces, explores and develops the concept of community resilience in a public library setting.<br> Analysis: <br> The paper opens the broader literature on community resilience and analyses the specific theme of public libraries and community ...

This work discusses the primitives of the mental lexicon through exploring aspectual compositionality in VP idioms. A comparison between idiomatic VPs and their non-idiomatic counterparts is employed to show whether the determination of aspect in idioms is compositional in both the idiomatic and the non-idiomatic VPs. Aspectual mismatches across the two domains of interpretation are presented and a ...

This study explores the interpretation of null and overt object pronouns by Brazilian Portuguese (BP) and European Portuguese (EP) bidialectal bilinguals. Object pronouns are a particularly good domain to examine, given that, particularly with respect to null objects, the underlying syntax as well as the semantic and discourse constraints that regulate their distributions in the two varieties are ...

We outline some recent highlights in the application of cognitive linguistic theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of Slavic languages. A principal strength of cognitive linguistics is the way it focuses our attention on the continuous nature of linguistic phenomena. Rather than positing rigid categories and strict definitions, cognitive linguistics addresses the messy realities ...

The title of this chapter, seeing and thinking borders, can be read in three different ways. It might refer to, firstly, the obvious fact that I try to adequately see and think borders - to subject processes of bordering and their contingent results to critical scrutiny. Or, secondly, the title might indicate that the acts of seeing and thinking themselves border - that perception and cognition are ...

The formative processes of collective identity and belonging inspired Benedict Anderson to write his ground-breaking Imagined Communities (1983). His emphasis on imagination and sodality in these processes also resonates in contemporary artistic presentations of life in northern Norway. A rereading of Anderson’s thesis in relation to the arts in northern Norway, in particular the visual arts, ...

In this paper, we consider variation in Verb Second (V2) word order in wh-questions across Norwegian dialects by investigating data from the Nordic Syntax Database (NSD), which consists of acceptability judgments collected at more than 100 locations in Norway. We trace the geographical distribution of the two main variables: phrasal vs. monosyllabic wh-elements (the latter argued to be heads) and ...

I standardspråklig norsk finnes en regel som gjerne blir kalt V2. Den krever at det finitte verbet alltid står på andreplass i setninga, som for eksempel i <I>Studentene drikker øl, Hva drikker studentene</I>? og <I>Vanligvis drikker studentene øl</I>. I denne artikkelen tar vi for oss et brudd på V2-regelen som er utbredt i mange norske dialekter, nemlig ikke-V2 i <I>hv</I>-spørsmål, slik som i ...

Preserved medieval books from the stone church at Trondenes in northern norway are investigated to illuminate distinct features of a book collection from the church. In particular, they testify to the use of early printed books (incunabula) in the late Middle Ages in norway. The discussion relates to chronology and the functions of the church. The functions considered are connected to liturgy, ...