Kaja Borthen
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kaja Borthen plays a role.
Articles
2021 Chapter 14. The Norwegian tag da in comparison to English then Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries, Van Olmen, Daniël and Jolanta Šinkūnienė (eds.), pp. 385–414 | Chapter
The Norwegian tag da and the English tag then have most likely developed from a common historical origin through the process of semantic bleaching and they have many overlapping functions today. This has led some researchers to claim that the two expressions have one and the same procedural… read more
2014 Referential and functional aspects
of the Norwegian first person plural vi Constructing Collectivity: 'We' across languages and contexts, Pavlidou, Theodossia-Soula (ed.), pp. 65–82 | Article
This paper explores questions of reference and communicative functions of the Norwegian first-person plural pronoun vi, based on transcripts of video recorded conversations between patients and nursing students or medical students. While many authentic examples of vi seem to be at odds with the… read more
2007 The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs The Grammar–Pragmatics Interface: Essays in honor of Jeanette K. Gundel, Hedberg, Nancy and Ron Zacharski (eds.), pp. 143–169 | Article