korkus, mari-liis vihman, virve-anneli
Heritage language (HL) research has investigated adults and children, while adolescents have garnered far less attention, despite adolescence being a crucial time in the development of idiolects and identities, and, hence, also for language maintenance. This study describes HL usage among Estonian-Swedish bilingual teenagers. Data were collected fr...
Holmer, Louise
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Lexicographica
This article deals with known challenges as well as new ones associated with the lexicographical solutions regarding derivatives in dictionaries. Five of Sweden’s major monolingual dictionaries are being examined with the aim of describing and comparing their derivatives, with special focus on deverbal nouns with the suffix -ande. The research comb...
öberg, linnéa bohnacker, ute
As in many other countries, baseline data concerning the linguistic development of bilingual children in Sweden are lacking, and suitable methods for identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in bilinguals are lacking as well. This study presents reference data from 108 typically developing (TD) Turkish/Swedish-speaking children aged 4;0–8;...
Blomqvist, Oliver
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Journal of Historical Sociolinguistics
This paper studies on multilingual administrative writing in Sweden during the early modern era of emerging national language ideology within the domain of court writing. The source material for this study consists of lower-court records from Finnish-speaking areas of the Swedish realm c. 1620–1700. The court system in Sweden was reformed in 1614 w...
fägersten, kristy beers stapleton, karyn hjort, minna
In this paper, we consider the censorship of public swear word usage as a function of, and continued maintenance of, taboo with a focus on L1 and LX swearing and its management. In research with multilingual speakers, first-language swear words are consistently perceived as more taboo, and thus more emotional/powerful than equivalent words from a s...
Mellquist, Simone
The present investigation explores the contexts that trigger purposive interpretations of Russian converbs. The contrastive method is used to elicit purposive converb usages from Swedish corresponding constructions, namely, [för att ‘in order to’ + infinitive] constructions. Two main structural types are observed. One analytic construction, in whic...
Burström, Julia
Syftet med studien var att få en fördjupad förståelse för gymnasielärares upplevelser av distansundervisningens påverkan på lärande i ämnet svenska. Syftet var även att få en inblick i hur lärarna ser på distansundervisningens framtid i ämnet svenska. Frågeställningarna handlade således just om lärarnas upplevelser, hur de ser på distansundervisnin...
Fäldt, Matilda
This study aims to research the different methods used by four Swedish translators to deal with foreign words in translation, focusing on their choices in terms of foreignization [staying close to the original text] and domestication [adapting the translation to make it accessible for readers] and their effect on a Swedish readership. This study’s ...
Carina, Kjelsson
This bachelor thesis presents a contrastive study of fixed expressions in Swedish and Dutch including idioms, semi-idioms and proverbs. The study is based on a corpus of 45 articles from each language equally divided among editorial articles, news articles and sports articles from the newspapers Dagens Nyheter and De Standaard. The results show tha...
Björs, Gustav Fält, Klara
Many large language models have been evaluated on datasets assessing different capabilities in the English language, enabling models to be compared. However, there exist fewer datasets in the Swedish language, and also fewer comparisons. Reading comprehension, quantitative reasoning, and mathematical problem solving, are some capabilities that are ...
