Browsing Institutt for lingvistiske og nordiske studier by Title
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Hovedmålet med denne studien har vært å se på språklige variasjoner og dialektforandringer hos seks tynsetinger bosatt i Oslo. Tynset kommune ligger helt nord i Hedmark, og grenser til Sør-Trøndelag. Til tross for dette ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2007)I hovedoppgaven undersøkes språk og kommunikasjon i gudstjenestens bønn. Siktemålet er å beskrive kommunikasjonen i denne kultushandlingen og å se om det finnes språklige særtrekk som kan tolkes som uttrykk for teologisk ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)Background Due to the increase bilingual population in the UK, it is imperative that reading materials are made accessible for them in and out of school. This study begins by reviewing literature on bilinguals reading ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2023)This study analyzes how second language and first language speakers of Norwegian recruit assistance with linguistic items in a video-mediated setting by engaging the chat function. Using the method longitudinal conversation ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)Several works have focused on case in coordination, such as Munn (1994), Johannessen (1994, 1997, 1998), Quinn (2005), and Parrot (2009, 2010). The literature shows that it is not the case that all conjuncts have the same ...
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Cats in Context - Archaeological evidence of human-cat relationships in Scandinavia and Iceland 200-1100 CERestricted Access (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2017)
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2015)This paper argues that the use of mixed Dutch, the speech style that Flemish linguists have come to name tussentaal (literally ‘interlanguage’) and which is made up of dialect and standard features, can index meanings ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / AcceptedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)In this paper, we question the apparent contradiction between the stated desire of the Scottish and Irish governments to promote local minority languages and the marginalization of these languages in the national celebrations ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2009)This study addresses questions surrounding the influence of context on modern scholarly literature, and the effect this has on the study of Celts. Through separating modern research into three distinct categories, and then ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2014)Drinking ceremonies played a very important social role in Viking Age Scandinavia and Anglo-Saxon England. This thesis will seek to illuminate these ceremonies by following the terms minni and bragarfull through the sources, ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)This article argues that the short textual fragment today called the Fifth Grammatical Treatise (below 5GT) represents a kind of hybrid within Icelandic poetics, occupying a middle ground between the nativizing treatises, ...
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(Chapter / Bokkapittel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2021)In this chapter, we discuss insights gathered from developing comparable language versions of child language assessment tools in different geographic, linguistic and sociocultural contexts. We use two tools as case studies: ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2020)In this paper we investigate children's processing and comprehension of metonymy, a type of figurative use of language where an object or individual is referred to via a salient property (e.g., The beard used to refer to ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2022)Afrikaans is a West Germanic language that originated in South Africa as a descendent of Dutch. It displays discontinuous sentential negation (SN), where negation is expressed by two phonologically identical negative ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2017)Child language development occurs in a given environment, complete with explicit and implicit regulations, intervening actors with their coherent or contradictory intentions, and specific resources for speakers. The main ...
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(Journal article / Tidsskriftartikkel / PublishedVersion; Peer reviewed, 2014)All the Scandinavian languages have overt non-referential subjects in e.g. impersonal or existential constructions and with weather-verbs like rain. It is, however, well known that the properties of the non-referential ...
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(Master thesis / Hovedoppgave, 2004)This thesis examines whether, when and how the Norse in the Hebrides choose to adapt to local circumstances and, in particular, their choice to accept Christianity. The Norse settled in the Hebrides from circa AD 800; the ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2013)The purpose of my master thesis is to focus on the religious beliefs of the free farmers during the 10th century in Norway. I chose this particular century first and foremost because it represents the pitch of the ...
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Christine og Eirik - Namn på barn av tysk-norske og tysk-tyske foreldre i Noreg i perioden 1960-1997 (Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)Samandrag I denne masteroppgåva har eg studert eit namnemateriale frå 1960-1997 i Noreg. Materialet gjeld fornamn på barn av tysk-norske foreldre i Noreg født i denne perioden. Eg har berre barn med eit fornamn i materialet. ...
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(Master thesis / Masteroppgave, 2018)Clefts (Norwegian: Utbryting) is a common phenomenon in Norwegian. It is traditionally considered primarily a focus construction (see e.g. Norsk referansegrammatikk), however it is also common in wh-questions, and pointing ...