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Semi-insubordinate at-constructions in Norwegian: formal, semantic and functional properties
Get PDFThis paper reports on a corpus investigation of one type of semi-insubordination in Norwegian, viz. semi-insubordinate at-clauses. That is, constructions that consist of a subordinate at-clause which is preceded by just one element. The study offers an overview of possible initial constituents in this construction on the basis of spoken and written corpus data. The data show that there are basically two types of initial elements in semi-insubordinate at-constructions: evaluative and discursive ones. The former include ‘minimal matrices’ conveying the speaker’s attitudinal assessment of the at-clause. The latter comprises rhetoric elements denoting the speaker’s reasoning towards the at-clause in relation to prior discourse. Semi-insubordinate at-clauses are problematic for traditional syntactic analyses as these constructions extend beyond the sentence level. Syntactically they are independent clauses, but pragmatically they are heavily dependent on prior context. It will therefore be argued that semi-insubordinate at-clauses are best accounted for as a discourse level phenomenon
Minneord Jeanette Sky
Get PDFGrunnlaget for Jeanettes karriere ble lagt ved Universitetet i Oslo, gjennom studier av religionshistorie, idéhistorie, litteraturvitenskap og medievitenskap. Hun disputerte med en avhandling om viktoriatidens alver i 2003, og var i perioden 2004 til 2007 ansatt som førsteamanuensis i religionshistorie ved NTNU. Tilbake i Oslo jobbet hun som freelancer, både innen akademia og som journalist. Hun var i tillegg en primus motor bak Din: Tidsskrift for religion og kultur, helt fra det første nummeret i 1999, som ansvarlig redaktør frem til 2007, og som medlem av redaksjonsrådet frem til sin død. Hennes entusiasme, kunnskaper og innsatsvilje var avgjørende for at tidsskriftet overlevde gründerfasen, og i dag er etablert i fagmiljøene
Från NORMS till GRAMINO
Get PDFDetta NLT-nummer innehåller sju artiklar som bygger på presentationer vid den första Grammatik i Norden-konferensen (GRAMINO), som hölls i Göteborg den 10–11 maj 2016. Konferensen är en fortsättning på ScanDiaSyn/NORMS-samarbetet (se nedan), och den är tänkt att fungera som ett forum för grammatikforskare som studerar de nordiska språken och dialekterna. I denna inledning ger vi först en bakgrund till GRAMINO-konferensen, och därefter presenterar vi de sju bidragen i korthet
Jan Heegård Petersen: Kalasha texts – With introductory grammar
Get PDFThe book under review is an outcome of several years of field work conducted by the author in an outlying part of the Hindu Kush. The texts in Kalasha language were recorded and transcribed by him and his language consultants between 1995 and 1997, and between 2004 and 2006. Kalasha has around 3,000 to 5,000 speakers and is a threatened Indo-Aryan language spoken in the Hindu Kush Mountains of Pakistan. Like several other languages in the area, also Kalasha adopted fairly recently an adapted version of the Persian script. However, this is of limited practical relevance. Out of the more than 30 languages that are spoken in the high mountains of North Pakistan none is employed as a medium of instruction in the local schools. Pakistan’s language and education policy differs significantly from that in India with its Three Language Formula which frequently means studying in a regional language and learning Hindi and English as second languages. It is also a regrettable fact that the present ‘cultural climate’ in the area does not really encourage caregiving to oral traditions in regional languages. And, of course, there has always been only a small number of enthusiasts ready to deal with all the difficulties and problems that are part of linguistic field work in such remote areas. It is necessary to point all this out because such circumstances make publications like the present one all the more important and valuable
Onomastikkfaget og praksis for vitenskapelig publisering
Get PDFThis article takes as its starting point the fact that onomastics, as well as the other native language fields in Norway, gradually have been phased out from the large universities over the last few years. The aim was to find out if this could be explained by the institutions’ policies on scholarly publishing. Onomastics and the other native language fields’ traditions for scholarly research, publishing and communication proves to be poorly adapted to the bibliometric indicators which have been used to evaluate research in Norway over the last ten years. Moreover, the strong demand for internationalisation in the academic institutions and use of international scientific citation indexing services may have contributed to the decline of impact of the small native language fields. Findings show that the representation of onomastics in one of these citation indexing services is marginal, as is publications in Norwegian. Solutions for how the scholarly research and communication in the native language fields could be more visible, include stronger attention to practices of national and international scholarly publishing, a better knowledge about how to publish with open access, and, preferably, a national strategy with adapted models and solutions for these fields
Meklenborg Salvesen, Ch. & H. P. Helland (eds.): Challenging clitics
Get PDFDespite being at the center of many discussions since the 1930s, clitics are still puzzling objects for any theory of natural languages. Great advances have been made in their description, analysis and in assessing the consequences that those analyses have for general linguistic theory, but still there are a number of basic problems about the nature of clitics, the structures built by them and the factors that determine their behaviour that have not been solved to complete satisfaction of all researchers. The articles compiled by Meklenborg Salvesen and Helland in this volume make a significant contribution to the understanding of these questions, but more importantly still, raise new questions and problems.The puzzling behaviour of clitics is best summarised in this famous quote from Sapir (1930: 70–71), discussing the nature of pronominal enclisis (right-attachment of a clitic to a host, as in Spanish da-me-lo ‘give-me.dat-it.acc, Give it to me’) ..
Mara – Uttrykk for fri kvinnelig seksualitet i norrøne kilder og norsk folketro
Get PDFI norsk folketro beskrives mara på forskjellige, til dels motstridende måter. Det gjør at disse forestillingene er vanskelig å forstå og tolke på en fornuftig måte. Tolker man maretradisjonen i lys av norrøn mytologi og norrøne kilder hvor det fortelles om ulike ridende vesener, kan man se en sammenheng mellom alle marebeskrivelsene i norsk folketro. Både norrøne kilder og norsk folketro gir rom for den tolkning at mare var uttrykk for dødelig begjær. Men selv om døden er forbundet med erotikk i flere kulturer, også i den norrøne, ifølge Gro Steinsland, vil det være forhastet å hevde at mare skulle føre til ettertraktet ekstase. Tvert imot, mareforestillingene kan ha vært uttrykk for fri kvinnelig seksualitet som virket så skummel og problematisk på det personlige planet at den var høyst uønsket. Fri kvinnelig seksualitet utgjorde dessuten en fare for hele samfunnsordenen. Derfor måtte den undertrykkes. I denne artikkelen blir maretradisjonen tolket i lys av norrøne kilder for å skape en sammenhengende tolkning av mareforestillingene, og forholdet til fri kvinnelig seksualitet står sentralt i disse
Ordenen Stjernen i Øst og julens budskap
Get PDFThe article is based on a close reading of the Christmas issues of the Norwegian theosophical magazine Stjernebladet/Stjernen in order to examine its approach to Christmas. The magazine was the mouthpiece of the Norwegian branch of the Order of the Star in the East (1910–1929). This fellowship was established within Theosophical Society in order to prepare its members for the imminent appearance of the theosophical messiah, the Indian youth Krishnamurti. He was thought to be a reincarnation of the so-called world teacher, who according to theosophical doctrine had incarnated before in such figures as Buddha and Christ. Our study showed that in Stjernebladet/Stjernen the Christian myth of the birth of Christ was used as an allegory for central ideas in theosophical messianism
«Men om hun er skyldig, det ved kun Gud i himlen!»
Get PDFGuilty – not guilty? Through various contemporary genres of fiction, a picture of the historical witch as an innocent victim of superior force and the use of brute force is being conveyed to the general public. In recent decades, monuments and memorials have been raised to honour and exonerate who have been executed as witches. But were they all without guilt? The article raises the question of guilt – not seeing it from the vantage point of witchcraft and sorcery legislation at the time in question, but rather, from beliefs and thought systems of the accused as well as convictions and hesitations brought forth by witnesses. In her discussion, the author stresses the complexity involved in efforts to understand and to prove that a certain event has occurred as a result of witchcraft. Here, the popular perception of what constitutes the normal or the abnormal plays an important role. The discussion draws on folk belief systems relating to magic and to essential features of formation and diffusion of rumours having a bearing on suspicion, accusation and verdict
“I saw it on the telly” – The history and revival of the Meråker clarinet
Get PDFOne of the most popular TV-programmes in Norway over the last 40 years has been the weekly magazine “Norge Rundt” (Around Norway). Each half-hour programme contains reports from different parts of Norway, made locally by the regional offices of NRK, the Norwegian state broadcasting company. In 1981, a report was presented from the parish of Meråker in the county of Nord-Trøndelag, where a 69-year old local fiddler by the name of Harald Gilland (1912–1992), played a whistle or flute-like instrument, which he had made himself. He called the instrument a “fløit” (flute, whistle), but it sounded more like a kind of home-made clarinet. When the instrument was pictured in close-up, it was possible to see that a single reed was fastened to the blown end (mouth-piece). This made me curious, because there was no information about any other corresponding instrument in living tradition in Norway. Shortly afterwards, I contacted Harald Gilland, and we arranged that I should come to Meråker a few days later and pay him a visit