Sverre Stausland Johnsen

• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2023). Oppklaringer om 1901-rettskrivningen. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 41(1), p. 147–173. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  I 2020 og 2021 publiserte jeg to artikler om den såkalte 1901-rettskrivningenfor norsk. Lars S. Vikør publiserte senere i 2021 en «gjennomgang» av disse toartiklene i Norsk Lingvistisk Tidsskrift. Her sier Vikør seg enig i det meste avinnholdet i artiklene, men retter også kritikk mot noe av innholdet og fremstil-lingen. I denne artikkelen svarer jeg på Vikørs kritikk. Artikkelen vil vise atVikør i stor grad bygger sin kritikk på misvisende gjengivelser i sekundærlitte-ratur, og at han kritiserer meg for å underslå forhold som jeg eksplisitt har gjortrede for. Konklusjonene fra mine artikler blir derfor stående, inkludert påstandenom at en norsk rettskrivning ble offisielt fastslått allerede i 1893

• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2022). Villgang i vig og verja. Norsk Årbok. ISSN 0809-7232. p. 69–78. Full text in Research Archive
• Johnsen, Stausland (2021). The origin of the Proto-Indo-European nominal plural ending *-ōs. Historische Sprachforschung. ISSN 0935-3518. 134(1), p. 186–195. doi: 10.13109/hisp.2021.134.1.186. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre & Kaldhol, Nina Hagen (2021). Grammaticalization in Somali and the development of morphological tone. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America. 6(1), p. 587–599. doi: 10.3765/plsa.v6i1.4993. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2021). 1901-rettskrivingi var den fyrsta samnorsk-umboti. Norsk Årbok. ISSN 0809-7232. p. 111–118. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2020). Grunnleggjande spørsmål om språkendring og norsk språkhistorie: Ein omtale av Norsk språkhistorie I - Mønster. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 37(1), p. 77–138.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2020). 1901-rettskrivinga, midlandsmakselen og riksstyremalet. Arkiv för nordisk filologi. ISSN 0066-7668. 135, p. 95–111.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2020). 1901-rettskrivinga, midlandsmakselen og riksstyremålet. Arkiv för nordisk filologi. ISSN 0066-7668. 135, p. 95–111. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2020). Norske ord og norsk ordleiding: Slag og type. Norsk Årbok. ISSN 0809-7232. p. 91–99. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2019). Grunnleggjande spørsmål om språkendring og norsk språkhistorie. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 37(1), p. 77–138. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2016). Null subjects, preproprial articles, and the syntactic structure of Old Norwegian pronouns. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 34(2), p. 183–217. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2016). Neighborhood density in phonological alternations. Proceedings of the Annual Meetings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. ISSN 0363-2946. 36, p. 426–440. doi: 10.3765/bls.v36i1.3928.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2015). Språkendringar langs Oslofjorden. In Sandøy, Helge (Eds.), Talemål etter 1800. Norsk i jamføring med andre nordiske språk.. Novus Forlag. ISSN 978-82-7099-843-2. p. 125–158.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2015). Dialect change in South-East Norway and the role of attitude in diffusion. Journal of Sociolinguistics. ISSN 1360-6441. 19(5), p. 612–642. doi: 10.1111/josl.12156. Show summary

  A common claim in the literature is that the local dialects in South-East Norway are being leveled towards the dialect of the upper social classes in Oslo. A meta-analysis of previous studies on dialect change in this region demonstrates that this assertion is incorrect, and that linguistic features have diffused from the dialect of the lower social classes in Oslo. Attitude studies show that people in South-East Norway have strongly negative views on the upper Oslo speech community, and this can largely explain why they do not adopt new linguistic features from this community. Within Oslo, however, linguistic features diffuse from the upper classes down to the lower classes, and the overall picture that can be drawn from these diffusion patterns is that the lower-class dialect of Oslo is spreading its features outwards from the capital, at the same time as it is gradually disappearing as a distinct sociolect.

• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2015). Vowel reduction in verbs in King Alfred's Pastoral Care, Historical Linguistics 2013. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027248534. p. 19–40. doi: 10.1075/cilt.334.02joh. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  An original unstressed vowel *ō generally develops to a in Old English. In some categories, however, both a and u are found as reflexes. The traditional explanation for this phenomenon posits that *ō developed to u when the following syllable also had a *u. A statistical analysis of the distribution of a and u in such forms in an Old English text finds no support for this theory. Since shortened vowels tend to raise and unstressed vowels in medial syllables are shorter than in final syllables, I hypothesize in this paper that *ō shortened and raised to u in medial syllables. A statistical analysis of the same text strongly supports this new hypothesis. This vowel raising process can be explained by neuromuscular and perceptual properties. Producing short low vowels increases the risk of undershooting the vowel target, which translates into vowel raising. At the same time, a shortened low vowel can be misperceived as a higher vowel, since high vowels are shorter than low vowels. With these explanations, a formal grammatical analysis is not needed to explain why vowel raising takes place.

• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2012). From perception to phonology: The emergence of perceptually motivated constraint rankings. Lingua. ISSN 0024-3841. 122(2), p. 125–143. doi: 10.1016/j.lingua.2011.10.006.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2012). Syncope of long *ī in Old Norse nouns. In Theil, Rolf; Schmidt, Tom & Askedal, John Ole (Ed.), Germansk filologi og norske ord. Festskrift til Harald Bjorvand på 70-årsdagen den 30. juli 2012. Novus Forlag. ISSN 978-82-7099-700-8. p. 33–51. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2012). Variation in Norwegian retroflexion. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. ISSN 0332-5865. 35(2), p. 197–212. doi: 10.1017/S0332586512000194. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2012). A diachronic account of phonological unnaturalness. Phonology. ISSN 0952-6757. 29(3), p. 505–531. doi: 10.1017/S0952675712000243. Full text in Research Archive
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2011). The phonetics and phonologization of Verner's law. In krisch, thomas & Lindner, Thomas (Ed.), Indogermanistik und Linguistik im Dialog: Akten der XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft vom 21. bis 27. September 2008 in Salzburg. Reichert Verlag. ISSN 978-3-89500-681-4. p. 232–241.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2009). The development of voiced labiovelars in Germanic. In Jamison, Stephanie; Melchert, H. Craig & Vine, Brent (Ed.), Proceedings of the 20th Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference. Ute Hempen Verlag. ISSN 978-3-934106-72-7. p. 197–211.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2009). Non-local binding in tenseless clauses. Chicago Linguistic Society - Papers from the Regional Meeting. ISSN 0577-7240. 45(2), p. 103–116.
• Johnsen, Sverre (2007). The development of voiced labiovelars in Germanic. Harvard Working Papers in Linguistics. ISSN 1542-6599. 12, p. 15–26.
• Johnsen, Sverre (2005). The historical development of Gothic aba and its n-stem anomalies. Historische Sprachforschung. ISSN 0935-3518. 118, p. 251–262.
• Johnsen, Sverre (2003). Ljodsamhøvet i AM 315 f fol. Arkiv för nordisk filologi. ISSN 0066-7668. 118, p. 47–75. Full text in Research Archive

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• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2021). Ummæle av 'Språket som vart norsk'. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 39(1), p. 207–219.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2020). Tilsvar til Sandøy, Conzett, Kristoffersen og Nesse. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. 38(2), p. 271–274.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre; Johannessen, Janne Bondi; Evjen, Maria & Priestley, Joel (2019). Tyngd på fyrste stavinga i lånord.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2014). Review of Kristján Árnason ‘The phonology of Icelandic and Faroese’. Phonology. ISSN 0952-6757. 31(2), p. 329–337. doi: 10.1017/S0952675714000141.
• Stausland Johnsen, Sverre (2013). The articulation of Norwegian retroflexes. Journal of Phonetics. ISSN 0095-4470. 41(1), p. 56–58. doi: 10.1016/j.wocn.2012.09.004.
• Johnsen, Sverre (2011). The origin of variation in Norwegian retroflexion. ProQuest. ISSN 978-1-267-10765-7.
• Johnsen, Sverre (2005). The Germanic (i)jō-stem declension. Origin and development. Universitetet i Oslo.

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