Department of Linguistics, Literary and Aestetic Studies
Recent Submissions
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Að snarbatna, steingleyma og dauðleiðast. Samtímaleg og söguleg athugun á áhersluforliðum með sögnum í íslensku
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Greinin fjallar um áhersluforliði með sögnum, fyrirbæri sem lítið hefur verið fjallað um í íslensku og á erlendum vettvangi. Áhersluforliðirnir eru kannaðir bæði frá sögulegum og samtímalegum sjónarhóli. Við efnissöfnun ... -
-an- á undan viðskeytinu -legur í íslensku. Tilraun til túlkunar
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Í þessari grein er gerð tilraun til túlkunar á samstöfunni -an- í -anlegur í afleiddum orðum eins og hækkanlegur. Spurt er þriggja rannsóknarspurninga og leitað svara við þeim; hvert er eðli samstöfunnar -an- í nútímaíslensku ... -
Cyborg Authorship: Writing with AI – Part 1: The Trouble(s) with ChatGPT
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)Scott Rettberg contextualizes some of the ethical and systemic problems of ChatGPT and argues that works of electronic literature and digital art might serve as tutor texts for understanding effects of technological mediation ... -
Sannhetens pris i Amalie Skrams drama: En sammenligning av Gjæld og Agnete
(Master thesis, 2025-02-03)Denne masteravhandlingen tar for seg dramaene Gjæld (1885-87) og Agnete (1893) av Amalie Skram. Begge verkene handler om borgerlige kvinner som forsøker å skjule sannheten om sine økonomiske problemer. Sannheten kommer ... -
The Norwegian language in Argentina: A first look at heritage Norwegian in a new context
(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 ... -
Latin-Amerika-norsk: Noen første observasjoner
(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 ... -
Sluttrapport. Revisjon av Bokmålsordboka og Nynorskordboka – Revisjonsprosjektet
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Better letter: Iconicity in the manual alphabets of American Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)While iconicity has sometimes been defined as meaning transparency, it is better defined as a subjective phenomenon bound to an individual’s perception and influenced by their previous language experience. In this article, ... -
Synthetic probes: A qualitative experiment in latent space exploration
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This essay outlines a methodological approach for the qualitative study of generative artificial intelligence models. After introducing the epistemological challenges faced by users of generative models, I argue that these ... -
Media and gender: A Nordic perspective
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Challenging Precarization: Maria Navarro Skaranger’s Portrait of a Young Mother in 'Emily Forever' (2021)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2025)The article argues that Maria Navarro Skaranger’s novel Emily forever (2021) can be interpreted as a comment on the situation of young mothers in contemporary Norway. The main character is a 19-year-old pregnant woman who ... -
Decoding Metadiscourse Markers in Estonian Academic Texts: A Language-Specific Perspective
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article presents the development of a specialized data set for analyzing Estonian metadiscourse markers in academic usage, extending Hyland's interpersonal metadiscourse model to a non–Indo-European language. Our goal ... -
Strangely enough: The rise of a sentence-adverbial construction
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Previous research has found that Norwegian has one productive sentence-adverbial construction, viz. expressions such as underlig nok ‘strangely enough’. Their constituents are an adjective in the positive indefinite singular ... -
Naturfantasier i Ausonius' Mosella
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)I artikkelen diskuterer jeg Ausonius’ dikt fra senantikken, Mosella, om elven med samme navn og med særlig oppmerksomhet rettet mot dens rekke av elve-ekfraser (v. 150–239). Med utgangspunkt i dikterens uttalelse om at han ... -
Motherhood, Marriage, and Swimming in the Sea - Allegorical Readings in Sara Stridsberg’s 'Happy Sally' (2004) and Inger Bråtveit’s 'Dette er også vatn' (2018)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This article explores women’s relationship to the sea and contributes with a gender perspective to Humanistic Ocean studies. In Swedish author Sara Stridsberg’s novel Happy Sally (2004) and Norwegian author Inger Bråtveit’s ... -
‘A distant echo attracts me, fragrance of life beyond’: growing up a metalhead in India
(Journal article, 2025)The paper is an account of growing up a metalhead in a suburb of a city in south Gujarat and then in Kolkata. The paper situates the author’s experience of growing up in a suburb of a non-metropolitan city in India as a ... -
Synthetic ethnography: Field devices for the qualitative study of generative models
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Advancements in generative artificial intelligence have led to a rapid proliferation of machine learning models capable of synthesizing text, images, sounds, and other kinds of content. While the increasing realism of ... -
A cross-linguistic study of lexical and derived antonymy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)Antonymy is the lexical relation of opposition. The nature of the oppositeness may differ – e.g., contradictory (‘true’–‘false’) or gradable (‘tall’–‘short’) – and there may be variation as to the relationship in their ... -
Sign duration and signing rate in British Sign Language, Dutch Sign Language and Swedish Sign Language
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)In this article, we look at sign duration and signing rate in corpora of three sign languages – British Sign Language (BSL), Dutch Sign Language (NGT), and Swedish Sign Language (STS). We investigate whether token frequency ... -
Cross-linguistic patterns of meta-discourse: Disciplinary Similarities and Section-based differences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2024)This study examines metadiscourse markers across a corpus of Estonian and Lithuanian journal articles in the field of linguistics. We aim to 1) compare the global use of all the metadiscourse markers across the languages ...