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Norwegian Discourse Ellipsis
This book develops a grammar model for discourse ellipses in spoken Norwegian. Two major questions are addressed. Firstly, is there active syntactic structure in the ellipsis site? Secondly, how are discourse ellipses licensed? It is argued that both structural and semantic restrictions are required to account for the empirical patterns.
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Northern Light
Here is a new, challenging appraisal of Norway, the author’s country of birth, that redefines its history, culture and heritage - ‘after Ibsen’ - and looks, with a degree of ominous foreboding, at its future and the future of Europe. Ex-diplomat and widely published author Jørgensen explores an array of topics, from Norway’s Viking past, its pursuit of independence, the German occupation, its politics and cultural heritage, the defence of NATO, the relationship with Europe, and the challenge of Russia, concluding with ‘self-image and reality’. In Northern Light , the author challenges many existing perceptions and stereotypes, making this an essential reference for anyone interested in Norway and its people, international affairs, European history and its cultural legacy.
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The other name : Septology I-II
Asle is a painter and widower who lives in the house in Dylgja where he used to live with his wife Ales. He is now alone; almost the only people he still sees are his neighbour, êAsleik - an old-fashioned country fisherman - and his gallerist, Beyer, who lives in the city of Bj²rgvin, Fosse's fictional version of Bergen. Another Asle, also a painter, lives in Bj²rgvin, and he and the narrator are doppelgangers, in a way, or perhaps two versions of the same person, the same life. The one who married Ales also became religious, and quit drinking, and became a successful painter; the other is on a harder path. It is a central event of Fosse's fictional universe when they meet. The action of the novel takes place during Advent, shortly before Christmas, with the lives of the two Asles told both in flashback and in the present.
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Crosslinguistic Influence and Distinctive Patterns of Language Learning
This book details patterns of language use found in the writing of adult learners of Norwegian as a second language (L2). Each study draws its data from the same corpus of L2 Norwegian texts and examines the learners’ use of Norwegian in relation to the morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic and pragmatic patterns they produce.
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Navigating Colonial Orders
Norwegians in colonial Africa and Oceania had varying aspirations and adapted in different ways to changing social, political and geographical circumstances in foreign, colonial settings. They included Norwegian shipowners, captains, and diplomats; traders and whalers along the African coast and in Antarctica; large-scale plantation owners in Mozambique and Hawai'i; big business men in South Africa; jacks of all trades in the Solomon Islands; timber merchants on Zanzibar' coffee farmers in Kenya; and King Leopold's footmen in Congo. This collection reveals narratives of the colonial era that are often ignored or obscured by the national histories of former colonial powers. It charts the entrepreneurial routes chosen by various Norwegians and the places they ventured, while demonstrating the importance of recognizing the complicity of such \"non-colonial colonials\" for understanding the complexity of colonial history.
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Language Learning and Forced Migration
This pioneering piece of research on the situated study of
language issues in the context of forced migration provides
interdisciplinary insights into language as learned, used and lived
by 12 Congolese refugees in Norway. It offers an innovative
contribution to the field of SLA by bringing together structural,
cognitive, social and critical approaches to data collected among
the same individuals, these individuals being underrepresented
within the field of SLA research as both refugees and learners
whose experiences with language stem from the Global South. Their
histories of mobility and their learning contexts are rarely
reflected in theories and concepts from the Global North and this
book thus makes a much-needed contribution to the field.
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