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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)The Icelandic case marking system has for decades proved an important testing ground for theories on case and productivity. This is in part because Icelandic has the rare property of marking argument function redundantly, with both rich morphological ... -
(Félagsvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, 2016)This article examines the care for the mother tongue in the Middle Ages. The starting point of this discussion is given by a Festschrift article by Sverrir Tómasson (Málvöndun á miðöldum, 1998). In the present article more examples are given of the ...
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(Stofnun Vigdísar Finnbogadóttur í erlendum tungumálum, 2016)The article discusses the cultural diversity of the Central American Caribbean region and examines the invisibility of the Central American minority populations, with particular attention to the Costa Rican Caribbean coast. The many different aspects ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2021-08)This work investigates the Icelandic folktale figure known as the kraftaskáld (power poet, hereafter anglicized as kraftaskald). Prominent in Icelandic folklore of the Post-Reformation period of the sixteenth through early twentieth centuries, these ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2022-04)Abstract This dissertation focuses above all on Clemente Rebora’s epistolary: that of 1916, 1920-1923 and 1913-1914 respectively. In Chapter I, the analysis concerns the period, following a war accident and its very serious consequences on his ...
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(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2016-04)Speakers are confused about identity if they mistake one thing for two or two things for one. I present two plausible models of confusion, the Frege model and the Millikan model. I show how a prominent objection to Fregean models fails and argue that ...
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(Cascadilla Press, 2020)onsidering work on quantitative input effects and the possible distributive characteristics of bilingual knowledge (e.g. Pearson et al. 1997; Oller, Pearson & Cobo-Lewis 2007; Thordardottir 2011 and 2014; Paradis & Grüter 2014; Unsworth 2015 ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2022-12-05)Literary translation means not only transition from a source text to a target text, but also reconstruction of contexts in the target text as much close as to those with the source text. Although the accepted view that there is no absolute in literary ...
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(Ubiquity Press, Ltd., 2016-10-04)This squib studies the order in which elements are added to the shared context of interlocutors in a conversation. It focuses on context updates within one hierarchical structure and argues that structurally higher elements are entered into the context ...
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(Isländska sällskapet, 2017-12-21)The article deals with the birth of a linguistic norm in Iceland and Italy. The discussion focuses on four works, which lay the foundations for the discussion of grammar and poetics in their respective vernaculars, namely Dante Alighieri’s De vulgari ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2020-12-08)
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(Saxo-instituttet, Københavns Universitet, 2017-04-01)An exploration of Aristotle's ideal of science between the philosophy of Plato and the "historical" research best exemplified by Herodotus.
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of History and Philosophy, 2018-11)This dissertation draws upon philosopher Pierre Hadot’s conception of philosophy as a way of life, which views philosophy as a process of self-transformation through engaging in practices (which Hadot characterizes as spiritual exercises) alongside ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Icelandic and Comparative Cultural Studies, 2023)Responding to the rapid growth of interest in the intersections between folklore and Old Norse literature in the field of Old Norse studies in recent years, this study aims at renewing and expanding the discussion on the relation between the fairy tale ...
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(Foundation for Endangered Languages, 2017-10-19)This paper proposes that the digital domains of language use (DDLU) be included in future assessments of language vitality. DDLU, including the consumption of online content, engagement with social media and chat which now make an important, and rapidly ...
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(Gatha Cognition, 2018-06-15)This paper examines the story of the last female drifters in Iceland from the voices of women who remembered them. It examines the advantages of the woman-on-woman oral history interview when obtaining women’s perspectives on women’s history. An ...
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(Hugvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, 2018)Í íslenskum miðaldalögum eru engin ákvæði um höfundarrétt. Höfundar nýttu sér hiklaust sögutexta annarra án leyfis, en skáld þáðu laun fyrir að yrkja lofkvæði um konunga og sagnamenn fyrir að skemmta með sögum við hirð Noregskonungs. Sagnalist varð ...
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(Informa UK Limited, 2018-03-21)I argue for a theory of the optimal function of the speech act of referring, called the edenic theory. First, the act of singular reference is defined directly in terms of Gricean communicative intentions. Second, I propose a doxastic constraint on the ...
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(Guðfræðistofnun Háskóla Íslands, 2017)Í þessari ritgerð er fjallað um það hvernig kirkjuleiðtogar, safnaðarfólk og prestar skilgreina hlutverk og verkefni þjóðkirkjunnar. Í ljós kemur að um er að ræða ólíkan kirkju- og embættisskilning. Með því að styðjast við hugtakið „kjörmynd“ (ideal ...
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(University of Iceland, School of Humanities, Faculty of Languages and Cultures, 2021-01)Spanish author C. Martín Gaite developed a number of theories on communication and the interlocutor in her essays and articles, that she put in practice in her narrative work through author-reader and characters communicative interaction. This study ...
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