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Typology of reduplication in Russian: constructions within and beyond a single clause
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024-07-01)We analyze repetition in Russian from the perspective of the Russian Constructicon which represents over 2200 grammatical constructions described in terms of anchors (fixed elements) and slots (for various filler elements) and fully annotated for their syntactic and semantic characteristics. The Russian Constructicon facilitates the first large-scale investigation of reduplication across a representative ... -
«Æg e no pærre et stakkars finn»: Skriftbasert karikering av samiske språkbrukeres norsk i aviser på 1900-tallet
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024)Det er grunn til å anta at språkmøter til alle tider har involvert en bevissthet om avvikende trekk i kontaktprega språkvarieteter. Videre kan slike trekk på ulike måter bli emblematiske for nettopp ei gruppe av språkbrukere – ofte innlærere av et majoritetsspråk – og gjennomgå indeksikaliseringsprosesser som gjør dem anvendelige i forskjellige slags imitasjon og karikering. Både skjønnlitterære og ... -
Ein ekte russisk patriot
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2024-11-15)<i>Patriot</i> er viktig som personleg vitnesbyrd, men boka er enda viktigare som ei skildring av moderne russisk historie. -
Looks at what isn't there: eye movements on a blank screen when processing negation in a first and a second language
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-10)Is negation more difficult to process than affirmation? If it is, does processing negation in a second language (L2) compound the difficulty compared to the first language (L1)? This article addresses the issues of difficulties in processing different types of negation in the L1 and L2 by looking at the differences in the ways in which comprehenders anticipate upcoming visual information during ... -
Disease, Corruption, and Contempt for Weakness: Rereading a Doll's House
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-31)The reason why Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House (1879) went to the extent of forging her father’s signature in order to take out a large loan was that her husband, Torvald Helmer, was “dangerously ill” (Ibsen 2016, 117, hereafter referred to by page numbers only) and needed a longer stay in the south in order to recover. And he recovers, is “[f]it as a fiddle,” and has no relapses; he “hasn’t ... -
Understanding ‘many’ through the lens of Ukrainian багато
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-17)We reveal an ongoing language change in Ukrainian involving a construction with a sub- ject comprised of the indefinite quantifier багато ‘many’ modifying a noun phrase in the Genitive Plural. Number agreement on the verb varies, allowing both Singular (in 69.1% of attestations) and Plural (in 30.9% of attestations). Based on statistical analysis of corpus data, we investigate the influence of the ... -
Neurocognitive mechanisms of emotional interference in native and foreign languages: evidence from proficient bilinguals
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-08-07)Currently available data show mixed results as to whether the processing of emotional information has the same characteristics in the native (L1) as in the second language (L2) of bilinguals. We conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) experiment to shed light on the neurocognitive mechanisms underlying bilinguals’ emotional processing in L1 and L2 during an emotional interference ... -
Schooling and language usage matter in heritage bilingual processing: Sortal classifiers in Mandarin
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2024-09-23)Mandarin sortal classifiers simultaneously encode semantic and grammatical form class cues. Building on a second language (L2) study of Grüter et al. we used the same visual world eye-tracking experiment, designed to examine the relative use of the two cues, testing Mandarin heritage speakers (HSs) living in an English-speaking environment. Given the importance of understanding individual differences, ... -
An Identity Crisis in James Joyce's Dubliners and Hugo Hamilton's The Speckled People
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-11-06)This thesis explores identity and intersectionality through the analysis of historical, cultural, religious and gendered elements in Irish literature. -
“Lonjit gal fertejit, geampa han galgá” Beaskaduddjoma proseassaid speadjalastin tearpmain ja doahpagiin Guovdageainnu suopmana mielde
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2022-11-01)Čoahkkáigeassu Dán masterbarggu fáddá lea duodjefágagiella. Lean válljen beaskaduoji ja guorahalan dán čállosis beaskaterminologiija. Beaskaduoji tearpmat ja doahpagat eai leat ođđa fuomášumit. Dat leat oassin sámi árbevirolaš máhtus ja leat áiggiid čađa gaskkustuvvon juogo praktihkalaš bargguid bokte, njálmmálaččat dahje čálalaččat. Dán masterbarggu oktavuođas lean válljen 75 tearpma maid ... -
Exploring Code Switching as a Strategy for Euphemism: A study of Bilingual Undergraduate of Pashto and English in Degree college Wari, Dir Upper
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-09-20)This research explores the motivations behind code-switching behavior, particularly focusing on its occurrence within the context of group discussions among English undergraduate students. Twenty participants, consisting of seven females and thirteen males, were observed during group discussions and subsequently interviewed individually to elucidate the reasons underlying their code-switching ... -
Communicative function in child directed speech: A cross-cultural analysis
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-07-26)Language development can be framed as the process of learning how to mean (Halliday, 1975). From this perspective, the role of communicative function is central to the languagelearning process with development being guided by interaction with experienced others. In the current study, we present a detailed analysis of the communicative functions used in interaction with prelinguistic infants aged ... -
The Forgotten Queer Utopia
(Mastergradsoppgave; Master thesis, 2024-10-30)Queerness is inherently utopian, just as the concept of utopia is inherently queer. Both utopia and queerness are a result of stepping out of a restrictive and oppressive space-time framing, hence why the need of creating worlds or realities that are outside the area of influence of majoritarian forces. The possibility of escaping and resisting a hierarchical and oppressive system allows the rise ... -
Lexical interference and prediction in sentence processing among Russian heritage speakers: an individual differences approach
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-10-04)In line with emerging trends examining sentence processing in heritage language (HL) bilingualism and adopting an individual differences approach, the present study investigated the role of prediction and lexical interference in 68 Russian HL bilinguals in North America. The former was investigated by examining how Russian HL bilinguals processed sentences with semantically constraining verbs, whereas ... -
Review of David Myer Temin, Remapping Sovereignty: Decolonization and Self-Determination in North American Political Thought. University of Chicago Press, 2023.
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-31)To be reminded of how contested issues around political sovereignty are in our time, one need only glance at news headlines. Readers expect, in fact, a daily bombardment of updates on war, genocide, and famine on multiple continents, and news of the latest wave of refugee deportation in the US and Europe. At the level of cultural and educational sovereignty, we confront the increasing precarity of ... -
Learning to Reconcile: Entextualisation of a Multilingual Municipality Sign in Educationscapes of Sápmi
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2024)The sign of the trilingual municipality Gáivuotna – Kåfjord – Kaivuono is one of the most discussed items in the linguistic landscapes of Sápmi and Norway. In 1992, the municipality was included in the Administrative Area for Sámi Language, and monolingual Norwegian road signs were replaced with bilingual ones that also included the North Sámi name. Shortly afterwards, the bilingual signs were ... -
Implicated Readers: Just Storytelling and Violence Against Migrant Women
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Taleteknologi og kunstig intelligens
(Research report; Forskningsrapport, 2022-12-29)Taleteknologi gjør at maskiner kan forstå hva vi sier og snakke selv. Men teknogigantene og engelsk som språk dominerer utviklingen. Hvordan sikre overlevelsen til norske språk? -
The potential roles of multilingualism and language structural distance in neurocognitive adaptation to language experience
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2024-05-24)A growing body of research shows that individual differences in bilingual language experience variably contribute to neurocognitive adaptations. The trends in this work are beginning to show a specificity of adaptations to the nature and degree of bilingual experiences – for example, duration of use, language switching, context and intensity of engagement. However, several other factors likely further ... -
Threatening in Russian with or without sja: Grozit′ vs. grozit′sja
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-12-26)This article explores the two verbs, grozit′ and grozit′sja, which can both be translated as ‘threaten’. We adopt a “local” approach and offer a thorough analysis of corpus data, which indicates that the two verbs, although they share a number of properties, are semantically and syntactically distinct. We show that the two verbs collocate with different parts of speech and tend to occur in ...
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