Browsing Bergen Open Research Archive by Author "Kinn, Kari"

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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 ...
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 ...
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) ...