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ScanDiaSyn-bloggen i november 2006
Sundag 19. november
I går fekk eg ein god nyheit frå Henrik Jørgensen: Den danske delen av ScanDiaSyn har motteke støtte frå Statens Humanistiske Forskningsfond (i Danmark). Rett nok berre ca. 60% av det søkte beløpet, men dette blir i alle fall ein god og etterlengta start for ScanDiaSyn i Danmark. Så får vi snart sjå om det blir grunn til å jubla eller gråta på norsk side...
- Øystein
Laurdag 4. november
I've added some pictures to the entries written while we were Senja, see below. Maybe more to come...
- Øystein
Fredag 3. november
The NORMS expedition to Senja is coming to an end. We'll be returning to Tromsø this afternoon by boat from Finnsnes. We had arrived in Medby Wednesday afternoon and met with some informants that evening, and today we have continued the investigations in Medby. Yesteday we travelled from Medby through a blizzard and spent the day in Stonglandseidet on the southernmost part of the island. Merete and Hilde had left earlier to Svanelvmoen to meet a couple of older persons from the Saami area of inner Senja. There are no Saami speaking persons left anymore, but one of them had grown up with Saami speaking parents and claimed to have passive knowledge of the language. As far as Merete and Hilde could tell there were no obvious substrate features in the speech of the persons they met, but it would be interesting to come back and study this group in more detail some day.
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| Quiet fjord, Medby; distant dark clouds on the horizon (Photo: Øystein A. Vangsnes) |
Througout these days we must have talked with something like 80 different people and we have gathered a lot of data. Every informant has obviously not been tested for all topics, but I reckon that on average there have been around 20 informants for every topic. So we are quite satisfied.
Merete and Tarald have now encountered more people that allow doubling of the indefinite article. Peter has been working hard with his past participles, not only with the informants but also with the rest of us. For my own part I think I have disconfirmed that the wh-determiner kas is specialized with respect to kind/token readings – people claim not to use it much, but the questionnaire results quite clearly suggest that it can be used to query for both types and tokens. (In fact I think that it's true that kas can be viewed as a contraction of ka slags ‘what kind of’ and that even this determiner is compatible with token readings, not just kind readings.) We have also substantial evidence for som-insertion with -extraction from embedded clauses, and I'm really looking forward to finding out if there is any correlation with ±V2 (in the matrix clause) and insertion of som in left periphery of the embedded clause.
- Øystein
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| Eagle watching in Senjahopen: Sigla in the background, rowan berries in the foreground (Photo: Øystein A. Vangsnes |
miðvikudagur 1. nóvember
Husøya in Øyfjorden (Senja) (Photo: Gunnar Hrafn Hrafnbjargarson)
- Gunnar Hrafn
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