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Sweden’s multilingual language policy through the lens of Turkish-heritage family language practices and beliefs

Published in International Journal of the Sociology of Language

This study explores the language maintenance efforts of Turkish heritage-speaker families in Sweden and their relation to state-level language policy from three angles. First, Swedish mainstream language ideology is described as it manifests in legislation, language policy and mother-tongue tuition. Then, the language practices of the families of 1...

The Gender Incongruency Effect in L3 Swedish due to Imperfect Gender Acquisition in L2 German

Published in European Journal of Scandinavian Studies

The study examines gender incongruency effects during gender retrieval in L3 Swedish learners, which are due to gender misassignment in L2 German. Twenty learners of L3 Swedish who had previously acquired two gender systems; one in their L1 Polish and the other in their L2 German, completed a speeded Gender Decision Task in Swedish and an untimed G...

Grammatical gender assignment in L3 versus L4 Swedish: a pseudo-longitudinal study

Published in International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching

Previous research has documented cross-linguistic influence in L2 grammatical gender acquisition and use. However, it remains unclear what role previously learned languages play in gender assignment beyond L2. To address this question, we created a timed gender decision task with which we tested two groups of L1 Polish university students of Swedis...

To drop or not to drop? Predicting the omission of the infinitival marker in a Swedish future construction

Published in Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory

We investigate the optional omission of the infinitival marker in a Swedish future tense construction. During the last two decades the frequency of omission has been rapidly increasing, and this process has received considerable attention in the literature. We test whether the knowledge which has been accumulated can yield accurate predictions of l...

Ny metodik för bärighetsförbättring av befintlig järnväg : Banunderbyggnadsrenoveringsmaskiner - Teori och praktik

Det svenska järnvägsnätet är till stor del byggt under andra halvan 1800-talet och i början av 1900-talet. Under de senaste 25 åren har uppgradering utförts av befintliga banor för högre hastigheter, högre axellaster och högre linjelaster. Uppgraderingen har skett genom uppgradering av enkelspår eller genom ombyggnad av enkelspår till dubbelspår. D...

Pleasure reading for development of English as a second language : Pleasure reading at home and its effects in the Engli...

This study aims to find an understanding of how pleasure reading outside of a classroom context can assist in the development of English as a second language. The study primarily seeks to examine what teachers and parents say about how the access to and active reading of English books in children’s home environment can benefit their language skills...

A contrastive study on the translation of hyphenated compounds in fashion writing

This study examines the translation of hyphenated compounds from English to Swedish in a non-fiction text about fashion. The translation is performed by the author of this study, which is important to keep in mind. The aim is to evaluate the structure and function of hyphenated compounds and analyze if and what changes occur in the translation proc...

Language practices in Swedish-English families

This dissertation examines the family language practices of Swedish-English families using an interdisciplinary and mixed-method approach. The principal aim is to empirically document what these practices are, as well as how practices interact with various ideological, conceptual, and contextual factors. The dissertation is composed of four empiric...

Skånes ortnamn. Serie A. Bebyggelsenamn. Del 5. Färs härad

This work presents an onomastic investigation of the settlement names in the district (härad) of Färs in Sweden’s southernmost historical province of Scania (Skåne). Historical and contemporary records of the names are given, as are cadastral data from historical sources. Each name is etymologised and interpreted toponomastically, taking linguistic...