• Argumentplacering i norskt arvspråk i Amerika 

      Larsson, Ida; Kinn, Kari (Chapter, 2021)
      Den här artikeln undersöker placeringen av subjekt, objekt och partiklar i äldre och yngre amerikanorska (i CANS-korpusen) och i LIA-korpusen, som representerar talspråket i Norge vid tiden för massutvandringen till Amerika. ...
    • High and low phases in Norwegian nominals: Evidence from ellipsis, psychologically distal demonstratives and psychologically proximal possessives 

      Kinn, Kari (Chapter, 2020)
      This squib discusses the idea of a high and a low phase in Norwegian nominals. I argue that ellipsis phenomena and syntactic constructions yielding speaker perspective meanings corroborate the proposal that nominals may ...
    • Latin-Amerika-norsk: Noen første observasjoner 

      Kinn, Kari; Stokka, Marie Lund; Pajaro, Veronica (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      Norsk som arvespråk i USA og Canada, også kjent som amerikanorsk, er et forskningsfelt med lange tradisjoner. Norsk som arvespråk i andre kontekster er derimot nærmest ukjent terreng. Denne artikkelen presenterer noen ...
    • The Norwegian language in Argentina: A first look at heritage Norwegian in a new context 

      Kinn, Kari; Hjelde, Arnstein; Stokka, Marie Lund (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)
      This paper presents preliminary observations of Norwegian as a heritage language (HL) in a contact situation that has largely gone unnoticed up until now: Argentina, where Spanish is the main contact language. We discuss ...
    • Pragmaticalised determiners in American Norwegian 

      Kinn, Kari (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This paper discusses the determiners slik and sånn ‘such (a), like this/that’ in American Norwegian (AmNo), and the extent to which pragmaticalised uses of these determiners, carrying information about the speaker’s attitudes ...
    • Pronominal demonstratives in homeland and heritage Scandinavian 

      Kinn, Kari; Larsson, Ida (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This paper discusses pronominal demonstratives (PDs) in homeland and heritage (American) Norwegian and Swedish. We establish a baseline approximating the language of the early emigrants, based on 19th/20th century Norwegian ...
    • Pronominale demonstrativer: Nye perspektiver fra norsk og svensk 

      Kinn, Kari; Larsson, Ida (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This paper is concerned with pronominal demonstatives (referred to as psychologically distal demonstratives by Johannessen 2008a, b) in older Norwegian spoken language, and written Swedish from the 19th century and the ...
    • Split possession and definiteness marking in American Norwegian 

      Kinn, Kari (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      This article discusses definiteness marking in two possessive constructions that exhibit special patterns (split possession) for certain kinship nouns in Norwegian. It is shown that the special patterns, whereby the relevant ...
    • Stability and attrition in American Norwegian nominals: a view from predicate nouns 

      Kinn, Kari (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)
      This study investigates the extent to which speakers of American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage language spoken in the United States and Canada, use the indefinite article in classifying predicate constructions (‘He is (a) ...
    • Stability and Change in the C-Domain in American Swedish 

      Larsson, Ida; Kinn, Kari (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      This article introduces American Swedish (AmSw) into the discussion of the C-domain in heritage Scandinavian. The study is based on spontaneous speech data from the Swedish part of the Corpus of American Nordic Speech ...