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Morphology-based explanation of modal auxiliary syntax in present-day English
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Muslim Otherness in Post-9/11 Novels A postcolonial outlook on the fictional representation of Muslim otherness in post 9/11 novels.
(Master thesis, 2020)The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,led many Americans to vilify Muslims and Islam. Indeed, 9/11 bequeathed to the U.S. a new category of evil other, a decade and more after the “evil empire” of the USSR had been ... -
“Natural” stress patterns and dependencies between edge alignment and quantity sensitivity
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)We conducted an artificial language learning experiment to study learning asymmetries that might reveal latent preferences relating to, and any dependencies between, the edge alignment and quantity sensitivity (QS) parameters ... -
Negation in English : compared to Norwegian
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The new England code : controlling female agency in contemporary American tv drama
(Master thesis, 2008)In an attempt to contextualize the DC observations, the overarching super-genre of melo-drama has been given particular attention. The relevance of melodrama is evident as the main ‘corpus’ of the survey, Cold Case, embodies ... -
Nineteen eighty-four´s dystopian vision: power and the individual
(Master thesis, 2007)Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four is by many known for, and consequently discussed in terms of, its “predictions” of the future, and its political satire. This thesis does not aim at discussing Orwell’s political ambitions, ... -
On the sociolinguistic typology of linguistic complexity loss
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)The nature of the human language faculty is the same the world over, and has been so ever since humans became human. This paper, however, considers the possibility that, because of the influence which social structure can ... -
On the Yellow Brick Road : Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and the Coming of Age Journey
(Master thesis, 2018) -
Orthographic precision for word naming in skilled readers
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Perfetti (2007) proposed that the quality of lexical representations affects reading. We investigated the role of lexical quality in decoding. Eighty-four adults read aloud words and pseudowords with dense and sparse ... -
Parental Strategies and Embodied Hope of Children in Post-Apocalyptic Works The Road and Bird Box: A study of Literary and Film Adaptation Strategies
(Master thesis, 2020)This thesis investigates alternate parental strategies in Post-Apocalyptic fiction by examining the core family units in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and Josh Malerman’s Bird Box. Additionally, I will analyse their respective ... -
Peace in the feminist garden : the feminist utopias of the ‘70s and the mythologies of the West
(Master thesis, 2016) -
PhD revisited : English writing instruction in Norwegian upper secondary schools – a linguistic and genre-pedagogical perspective
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019) -
PhD revisited : Poetry : Prima Vista. Reader-Response Research on Poetry in a Foreign Language Context
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2019)