This study investigates the choice of genitive forms (the woman’s book vs. the book of the woman) in the English of Japanese-English bilingual returnees (i.e., children who returned from a second language dominant environment to their first language environment). The specific aim was to examine whether change in language dominance/exposure influences choice of genitive form in the bilingual children; ...

The Chukotian writer Yuri Rytkheu, born in 1930, is the author of a large number of books, all of them dealing with the hard life of the small indi- genous people to which he belongs. The last century has seen two im- portant turning-points in this people's history: the establishment of Soviet power and its fall. Neither event has lead to an improvement of the situ- ation. The never-ending hardships ...

The article “... please do not forget that you have a friend”: Olaf Broch and Aleksej Aleksandrovič Šachmatov is based on archivе materials containing hitherto unknown facts from the life of the Norwegian Slavist Olaf Broch. The article focuses primarily on aspects of Broch’s biography after the death of his colleague and friend, the Russian Academy member Aleksej Šachmatov. Fragments of the ...

Trondheims-dialekten har tradisjonelt tre grammatiske kjønn: hankjønn, hunkjønn, og intetkjønn. Denne artikkelen presenterer resultater fra to eksperimenter som viser at hunkjønn står svakere i denne dialekten enn tidligere antatt. Resultatene tyder på at dialekten er i ferd med å utvikle et togenussystem, der den ubestemte artikkelen for hunkjønn og hankjønn har falt sammen. Vi ser tydelige forskjeller ...

We address the question whether speakers activate different grammars when they encounter linguistic input from different registers, here written standardised language and spoken dialect. This question feeds into the larger theoretical and empirical question if variable syntactic patterns should be modelled as switching between different registers/grammars, or as underspecified mappings from form to ...

This article investigates the diachronic development of Russian numeral constructions consisting of a paucal numeral (<i>dva</i> “two”, <i>tri</i> “three”, <i>četyre</i> “four”) followed by an adjective and a noun. Based on statistical analysis of more than 6,000 corpus examples, it is shown that a split took place in the second half of the twentieth century when feminine nouns developed a dif- ...

Det er velkjent hvordan etableringen av Finnefondet, språk og skolepolitikk, samt salg og tildeling av jord for å fremme norsktalende bosetting i grenseområdene i nord utover på 1800- og 1900-tallet kan ses som deler av en strategisk fornorskingspolitikk.[1] At kunst- og kulturfeltene kan ha bidratt til å fremme ensretting av samfunn og medborgerskap – endog til fornorskning – synes å være mindre ...