In 2016, the Norwegian government initiated an extensive reform of the regional scale, eventually reducing the number of political-administrative counties from nineteen to eleven through mergers. The territorial and institutional changes that followed can be understood as a partial regional (de/re)institutionalisation process, in which the political and administrative boundaries of the merged coun

Abstract på spanskaUna de las fuentes más sólidas de nuevo conocimiento sobre las categorías tipológicas proviene de nuestro creciente entendimiento de las lenguas indígenas de América del Sur, una región que hasta hace poco ha estado significativamente subrepresentada en los estudios tipológicos. Este artículo ofrece un ejemplo a través de la investigación del número en nadëb, un miembro de la peOne of the most robust sources of fresh insights into typological categories comes from our growing knowledge of the indigenous languages of South America, a region that until recently has been significantly under-represented in typological studies. This paper offers a case in point through the investigation of number in Nadëb, a member of the small Naduhup family of the northwest Amazon, which re

Nominal classification is a robust feature in many Amazonian languages, and aspects of these systems offer significant challenges to our broader conception of the phenomenon. Yet a clear characterization of Amazonian classification systems must be firmly grounded in detailed descriptive analysis on one hand, and in a principled definition of classification as a typological category on the other –

Not all spatial adjuncts behave alike. In some languages, certain spatial adjuncts display different marking or different combinatorial possibilities than others. Recent functional-typological studies make two claims about this differential place marking phenomenon: (1) it is primarily motivated by noun semantics, opposing place names and other nouns; and (2) it is primarily realized as a contrast

Levinson (2003) provides evidence that distinct cultures display distinct spatial references that, as a consequence, impacts the linguistic encoding of spatial notions. This linguistic variation has fostered the interest of understanding the spatial domains responsible for the linguistic encoding of spatial information. According to Levinson and Wilkins (2006, p. 2), these domains consist in: the

Abstract in Portuguese:Referências a paisagens e lugares são elementos centrais nas narrativas tradicionais de falantes da língua Dâw (Naduhup,Amazônia brasileira). Essa ênfase na referência espacial é estabelecida principalmente por meio de orações adverbiaislocativas que são frequentemente repetidas ao longo do discurso. Sua função é relacionar um evento a um lugar, estabelecerreferência à inforReferences to landscape and places are central in traditional narratives by speakers of Dâw (Naduhup, Brazilian Amazon). This emphasis on spatial reference is primarily established through locative adverbial clauses that are often repeated throughout the discourse. Their function is to relate an event to a place, establish reference to locative information mentioned earlier in discourse, and provi

Abstract på portugisiska As línguas diferem umas das outras em relação a se, e, como, elas categorizam nomes a partir de critérios lexicais e gramaticais específicos. Um exemplo bastante estudado é a distinção entre nomes contáveis e massivos, que divide os nomes de acordo com sua capacidade de serem contados ou medidos. Comparações entre as línguas sobre esse sistema de categorização nominal mostLanguages differ with respect to if and how they categorize their nouns based on specific lexical or grammatical criteria. A well-studied example is the mass/count distinction, which groups nouns according to their ability to be counted or measured. Cross-linguistic comparison on this noun-categorization system provided evidence that the mass/count distinction is not a reflection of pre-linguistic

Complex predication is understood to be a highly productive processin Northwestern Amazonian languages in which complex predicates may berealized as compounds, verb-auxiliary constructions or serial verb constructions depending on language-internal criteria. These constructions play an important role in the organization of discourse and information packaging and can also carry out grammatical func

Research concerning endangered languages has evolved from research on such languages, to research for their speaker communities, and more recently to research with speakers of endangered languages (Grinevald & Bert 2011:62). Such collaborations between communities and linguists are by now considered best practice and an idealized goal (Leonard & Haynes 2010) to foster more equitable relati

This report relates to GIROD WP1 – “Development of a calculation model”. WP1 consists of four sub-WPs: 1.1 “Theoretical work”, 1.2 “Bond line tests”, 1.3 “Tests for calibration” and 1.4 “Calibration of model”.In WP1.1 theoretical models for rational prediction of pull out strength have been developed. The models include a very simple ideal plastic model, a linear elastic fracture mechanics model,

The paper accounts for the extent to which gender research is represented in leading archaeological journals throughout the 1980s to the present through the database Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI). The paper regards gender research as including gender, feminisms, masculinities,queer, intersectionality and embodiment. It is concluded that gender research, despite its alleged significanc

Almost 30 years have passed since gender studies entered archaeological discourse in earnest. What is the current status of gender research? One of the aims with this book is to contribute to answering this and other related questions. Another is to shed some light on the pasts and possible futures of gender research.Contributions deal with publication statistics in journals over the last theirty

Almost thirty years have passed since gender studies entered archaeologicaldiscourse in earnest. What is the current status of gender research? How arethe theoretical and analytical insights from feminisms used within archaeo-logical research? Have these insights been adapted to the archaeologicaldiscipline, have they been developed and deepened? What about other sub- jects in academia, academic d

The study of the movement of ‘things’ — the exchange of objects as gifts or through trade, the itineraries that they followed when on the move, and their changing importance from location to location — can offer unique insights into our understanding of past societies; and archaeology plays a vital role in allowing such movements to be traced. Nonetheless the circulation of objects across time, an

This chapter examines cultural exchange, change, and continuity through the lens of population movement: migration, immigration, refugees, displacement, diaspora, and the modes of transportation that brought diverse people into direct engagement with each other.