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Faroese wh-nominals
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel, 2009)This paper presents a survey of Faroese wh-nominals, in particular (i) the hvør N construction, (ii) the hvat fyri (ein) N construction, and (iii) the hvat slag av N.dat construction. The first construction involves a wh-item which is used both pronominally, corresponding to English who and what, and adnominally, corresponding to English which, what (N), and what kind of. The second construction is ... -
Formell og semantisk adjektivkongruens i norsk
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-22)Artikkelen gir eit empirisk basert oversyn over og diskusjon av utvalde typar adjektivkongruens i attributiv og predikativ posisjon i norsk. Vi fokuserer særleg på to empiriske forhold som peikar seg ut som slåande: 1) Ved semantisk kongruens i predikativ posisjon er det tilsynelatande ingen formelle kongruenstrekk i predikasjonssubjektet som utløyser kongruens på det predikative adjektivet; ... -
Joina du kino imårgå? Ungdomars dialektskriving på sosiale medium
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-01-22)Sosiale medium utfordrar det tradisjonelle skiljet mellom normert og standardisert skriftspråk og inviterer til kreativ og refleksiv språkbruk. For mange norske ungdommar er det vanleg å ta i bruk trekk frå eit breitt språkleg repertoar – inkludert dialekttrekk og andre unormerte trekk – i private samanhengar på sosiale medium. I denne artikkelen presenterer vi data frå fire utvalde stader i ei ... -
Language separation in bidialectal speakers: Evidence from eye tracking
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2018-08-20)The aim of this study was to find out how people process the dialectal variation encountered in the daily linguistic input. We conducted an eye tracking study (Visual Word Paradigm) that targeted the online processing of grammatical gender markers. Three different groups of Norwegian speakers took part in the experiment: one group of students from the capital Oslo, and two groups of dialect speakers ... -
Measureless quantificational exclamatives
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)There is considerable variation related to the form of exclamatives across North Germanic varieties (see Delsing 2010 and Abels and Vangsnes 2010). However, in the Nordic Syntax Database there is only information about one particular and somewhat special kind of exclamative construction, here termed ‘measureless quantificational exclamative’ and exemplified by the Swedish example in (1). (1) Vad ... -
The Nordic research infrastructure for syntactic variation: Possibilities, limitations and achievements
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-02-08)The Scandinavian Dialect Syntax project was a collaboration between ten research groups from all of the five Nordic countries lasting for a period of about ten years. Besides resulting in a large number of scientific papers and theses on a range of different topics, a concrete outcome of the collaboration was the establishment of lasting research infrastructures in terms of two databases: the Nordic ... -
Noun Phrases
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)There is extensive variation in the structure of noun phrases across varieties of North Germanic. This has been extensively documented and researched in a number of publications, see e.g. Lundeby (1965), Delsing (1993), Holmberg (1994), Vangsnes (1999), Vangsnes et al. (2003), Julien (2005a), Dahl (2010) and references cited therein. Some of the best known variation pertains to the marking of ... -
The polyfunctionality of which in Övdalian
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2015)The Övdalian wh-word ukin has a variety of syntactic uses, spanning from the canonical use as personal pronoun (‘who’) to predicative property querying item (‘what ... like’) and polarity item introducing both main and embedded clauses. In this paper the various uses will be described and discussed, and it will be argued that the polyfunctionality of ukin can be well understood on the background of ... -
A prognosis for Sámi in Norway: Schools as key to revitalization
(Conference object; Konferansebidrag, 2019)The paper presents three different prognoses for the future number of Sámi language users in Norway based on the contemporary number of children receiving instruction in Sámi in the Norwegian school system, either North, Lule or South Sámi. There exist three different curricula for the subject Sámi, one for first language pupils (Sámi 1), one for second language pupils (Sámi 2), and one for foreign ... -
Romsa – byen som ikkje ville vera samisk: Ein politisk thriller
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2013)<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 ... -
Språk og standpunktkarakterer i nynorsk- og bokmålskommuner på Vestlandet
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-06-12)Standpunktkarakterene i nynorskkommuner på Vestlandet viser en mindre gunstig utvikling i perioden mellom 2009 og 2018 enn i bokmålskommunene i samme region. Artikkelen drøfter mulige årsaker, herunder endringer i medienes språk, der nynorsk i stor grad har blitt fortrengt av bokmål og dialekter, en utvikling som er aller tydeligst i nye digitale medier. -
Språkforsker: –Tromsø bør satse på en samisk skole
(Chronicle; Kronikk, 2021-02-11)Det vil bli en kraftig nedgang i antall personer som snakker samisk hvis vi fortsetter med dagens undervisningstilbud. Språkforsker Øystein Vangsnes mener det er på tide å få en samisk skole i Tromsø. -
Variation and change in Norwegian wh-questions: The role of the complementizer som
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-06-18)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 ... -
Verb Second in Norwegian: Variation and Acquisition
(Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2020)This chapter provides an overview of the micro-variation in Norwegian when it comes to Verb Second (V2) word order, both in the various dialects and in the two written standards. The variation is dependent on a number of factors, including clause type, type of initial element, and information structure. This overview demonstrates a rich inventory of micro-systems, raising the question of how children ... -
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 ... -
Wh-nominals: “adnominal how”
(Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2017-08-22)There is considerable variation across North Germanic when it comes to the composition of noun phrases that contain a wh-word, i.e. interrogative noun phrases such as English which N, what N and what kind of N or exclamative noun phrases such as English what a N.
