Browsing UiS Brage by Author "van Baal, Yvonne"
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American Norwegian derivational morphology in contact
Natvig, David Albert; van Baal, Yvonne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Heritage languages (HLs) reliably exhibit morphological patterns prone to change and restructuring. Yet, American Norwegian appears to be remarkably stable in terms of structure, although with some surface variability. ... -
The decline of feminine gender: a cross-dialectal study of seven Norwegian dialects
van Baal, Yvonne; Eik, Ragnhild; Solbakken, Hedda; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This paper presents a cross-dialectal study of grammatical gender in Norwegian nominal phrases. Specifically, we investigate the decline of the feminine gender in three age groups across seven different dialects. The ... -
The decline of feminine possessives in Norwegian: An empirical and theoretical investigation of gender and declension class
Solbakken, Hedda; Eik, Ragnhild; van Baal, Yvonne; Lohndal, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)This paper reports results from a large cross-dialectal study, showing that feminine forms are changing in several dialects. These results suggest that the Norwegian three-gender system may be in the process of becoming a ... -
(Den) eneste måten - When the prenominal determiner can be omitted from Norwegian double definite phrases
van Baal, Yvonne (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024-06)Norwegian, like Swedish and Faroese, exhibits double definiteness: modified definite phrases normally contain both a prenominal determiner and a suffixed definite article on the noun. However, exceptions—phrases with only ...