Just as novels, beyond their aesthetic and entertainment value, have always served as reflections of the cultural values, political debates, and societal challenges of the time in which they were produced, contemporary ...

The symmetrical inter-displacements of corresponding blocks of text between strophes and antistrophes in lyrical odes, earlier proposed for A. Supp. 88–90 ~ 93–95, 872–75 ~ 882–84, and 906–7 ~ 909–10, have affected all ...

Í greininni er sagt frá rannsókn á viðskeytaröðum í íslensku með nafnorðs- og lýsingarorðsviðskeytum í fyrsta sæti, hversu algengar þessar raðir eru og hvaða valhömlur (e. selectional restrictions) eru ráðandi í viðskeytingunni. ...

This article discusses a fragment of Stephen of Tournai’s Summa in decretum Gratiani, now in the Norwegian National Archives, but originally part of a manuscript copied in France between around 1175 and 1200. The medieval ...

Most known book collections in medieval Norway are associated with religious institutions such as monastic houses and cathedral chapters. In the northernmost parts of Norway there were no such institutions, but we still ...

Today, where information is continually transferred in the form of data, the word “information” has all but been exchanged for the word “data.” This shift of terms has aided in effectively transforming the world into a ...

Self-tracking apps gather intimate information about our daily lives. Sometimes, they take the role of a confidante, an anthropomorphised companion we can trust. Humans have long confided in non-human companions, such as ...

We analyze argument structure of whole-entity and handling classifier predicates in four sign languages (Russian Sign Language, Sign Language of the Netherlands, German Sign Language, and Kata Kolok) using parallel datasets ...

An “archaism” in this context means a word deemed obsolete or typical of an older period in language history, while being out of tune in present-day usage. Nynorsk has a tradition of purism, especially directed against ...