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The North Germanic Dialect Continuum

open access: yes, 2020
The modern North Germanic languages family consists of mutually intelligible languages spoken in mainland Scandinavia (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish) and the insular languages Faroese and Icelandic. The languages have a common origin but have now diverged to such an extent that there are three different language continua with a large number of ...
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General linguistics and Indo-European reconstruction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
There is good reason to be ambivalent about the usefulness of general considerations in linguistic reconstruction. As a heuristic device, a theoretical framework can certainly be helpful, but the negative potential of aprioristic considerations must not ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
core  

On Schopenhauer's Debt to Spinoza1

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.
Abstract Schopenhauer offers ‘nature is not divine but demonic’ as a direct rebuttal of Spinoza's pantheism, his identification of ‘nature’ with ‘God’. And so, one would think, he ought to have been immune to the ‘Spinozism’ that became, as Heine called it, ‘the unofficial religion’ of the age.
Julian Young
wiley   +1 more source

En studie av sju polskspråklige elevers erfaringer med innpass, identitet og investering i norskspråklige fellesskap

open access: yesNOA, 2022
Denne artikkelen beskriver hvordan sju polskspråklige grunnskoleelever erfarer det å være polsk og minoritetsspråklig i norsk skole. Med utgangs­punkt i en kvalitativ intervjuundersøkelse og ved hjelp av sosiokulturelle teorier om diskurs- og språklæring
Marlene Øverbekk, Irmelin Kjelaas
doaj  

The spread of the Indo-Europeans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The publication of Mallory’s book (1989) has rendered much of what I had to say in the present contribution superfluous. The author presents a carefully argued and very well written account of a balanced view on almost every aspect of the problem ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Europe: So Many Languages, So Many Cultures [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Steinhauer, H. (Hein)
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The status of thegn in late Anglo‐Saxon England

open access: yesEarly Medieval Europe, EarlyView.
This article considers how the term ‘thegn’ was used in tenth‐ and eleventh‐century England. Although commonly thought to indicate members of a face‐to‐face service aristocracy with specific attributes, it has resisted close definition. Examination of references to anonymous thegns in administrative and legal texts suggests that the people meant were ...
Richard Purkiss
wiley   +1 more source

Transnasjonal identitet og transspråking hos unge tilbakeflyttere

open access: yesNOA, 2022
Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i forståelser av transnasjonalisme og transspråking for å få innsikt i forhandlinger om språk og identitet blant andregenerasjon med kurdisk bakgrunn som vokste opp i Vest-Europa og som returnerte til foreldrenes hjemland, den
Sara Ahmed Karim
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UNWARRANTED CONFIDENCE: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF THE POVERTY OF ANTI‐REALISM

open access: yesHistory and Theory, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Poverty of Anti‐Realism: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernist Philosophy of History, edited by Tor Egil Førland and Branko Mitrović, celebrates the new dawn of historical realism, which it claims supersedes the erroneous and harmful anti‐realism.
Jouni‐Matti Kuukkanen
wiley   +1 more source

Med forskningsetiske briller på – en drøfting av dilemma i forskning som involverer gryende flerspråklige barnehagebarn

open access: yesNOA, 2021
I artikkelen diskuteres noen sentrale forskningsetiske forhold som kan aktualiseres når gryende flerspråklige barn er involvert i forskning. Formålet med artikkelen er å løfte fram diskusjonene rundt hva slags implikasjoner forskningsetiske vurderinger ...
Gunhild Tomter Alstad
doaj  

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