Bergljot Behrens

• Behrens, Bergljot (2017). Processing possessives in translation between unequal systems. An exploratory study. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). 9(2), p. 105–136. doi: 10.5617/osla.4769. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The present paper reports on the results of two translation experiments conducted with eye tracking and keylogging. Norwegian and Danish professional and student translators have each translated a small English news text into their L1. The texts include possessives in different syntactic environments which entail a choice between a reflexive and an irreflexive form in the target texts. While native speakers are expected to make uniform choices that conform to regularities on local and non-local binding principles in Danish and Norwegian, disparate solutions have been found among the participants in both groups. The study compares final products with process data, both in terms of edits and in terms of temporal measures indicative of translation effort. Results show a considerable amount of hesitation on choice in all non-finite clause constructions, albeit more so among students than among professionals. Questions of translation effects versus an unstable locality principle are taken up in the final discussion.

• Pitz, Anneliese Pauline; Behrens, Bergljot; Bott, Oliver; Solstad, Torgrim; Hörnig, Robin & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2017). An empirical L2 perspective on possessives: German/Norwegian. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). 9(2), p. 41–74. doi: 10.5617/osla.4765. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The present paper reports on two empirical studies concerning the acquisition of possessive systems by L2 learners of Norwegian and German respectively. The first study investigates comprehension and production in written translation while the second study is a set of offline experiments testing the interpretation of possessives by both native speakers and German learners of Norwegian. Norwegian distinguishes between reflexive and irreflexive possessives, while German does not. The reflexive stem form si* is phonologically similar to German sein*, but may correspond to ihr*, a feminine or plural possessor, as well. These differences make the acquisition of Norwegian and of German as a foreign language a complex procedure of restructuring both at the phonological and the grammatical level. Results of the study indicate that the only partly overlapping forms and structural constraints on possessives in the two languages are cognitively demanding in L2 acquisition and subject to transfer effects.

• Behrens, Bergljot (2015). The Task of Structuring Information in Translation. In Carl, Michael; Bangalore, Srinivas & Schaeffer, Moritz (Ed.), New Directions in Empirical Translation Research. Springer. ISSN 9783319203577. p. 290–306. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-20358-4_12. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Schaeffer, Moritz; Sturm, Annegret & Heilmann, Arndt (2015). The Role of Syntactic Choices in translation and post-editing. Translation Spaces. ISSN 2211-3711. doi: 10.1075/ts.4.1.06sch. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2014). Review of Hansen-Schirra Silvia, Stella Neumann and Erich Steiner (eds.) Cross-Linguistic Corpora for the Study of Translations: Insights from the Language Pair English-German. Functions of language. ISSN 0929-998X. 21(2), p. 239–247. doi: 10.1075/fol.21.2.04beh. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Pitz, Anneliese Pauline (2014). Fantastiske Absolutter -Absolutt Fantastisk. In Helland, Hans Petter & Salvesen, Christine Meklenborg (Ed.), Affaire(s) de grammaire. Mélanges offerts à Marianne Hobæk Haff à l'occasion de ses soixante-cinq ans. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270997534. p. 157–185. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Frazier, Lyn (2014). Pairing Form and Meaning in English and Norwegian: Conjoined VPs or Conjoined Clauses? In Hemforth, Barbara; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Mertins, Barbara (Ed.), Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages. Springer Publishing Company. ISSN 9783319056746. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-05675-3_3. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Hemforth, Barbara; Mertins, Barbara & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2014). Understanding Coordinate Clauses: A cross-linguistic experimental Approach. In Hemforth, Barbara; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Mertins, Barbara (Ed.), Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages. Springer Publishing Company. ISSN 9783319056746. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-05675-3_2. Full text in Research Archive
• Solfjeld, Kåre & Behrens, Bergljot (2014). Discourse role guiding clause type and position in translation. Corpora and Language in Use. ISSN 2034-6417. Monographs 1, p. 267–296. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2014). Nominalization: a case study of linguistic text Conventions in comparable and parallel texts: English and Norwegian. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). 6(1), p. 1–18. doi: 10.5617/osla.735. Full text in Research Archive
• Borthen, Kaja; Hemforth, Barbara; Behrens, Bergljot; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Mertins, Barbara (2014). Referring expressions in speech reports. In Hemforth, Barbara; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Mertins, Barbara (Ed.), Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages. Springer Publishing Company. ISSN 9783319056746. p. 111–142. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-05675-3_5. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Flecken, Monique & carroll, mary (2013). On the Use of Progressive Aspect in Dutch, Norwegian and German. Journal Of Germanic Linguistics. ISSN 1470-5427. 25(2), p. 95–136. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Flecken, Monique & carroll, mary (2013). Progressive Attraction- On the Use and Grammaticalization of Progressive Aspect in Dutch, Norwegian, and German. Journal Of Germanic Linguistics. ISSN 1470-5427. 25(2), p. 95–136. doi: 10.1017/s1470542713000020. Full text in Research Archive
• Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Behrens, Bergljot & Helland, Hans Petter (2012). Open adjuncts: degrees of event integration. In Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew (Ed.), Big events, small clauses : the grammar of elaboration. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9783110285864. p. 131–178. doi: 10.1515/9783110285864.131. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Solfjeld, Kåre (2012). Competing structures: the discourse perspective. In Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew (Ed.), Big events, small clauses : the grammar of elaboration. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9783110285864. p. 179–225. doi: 10.1515/9783110285864.179. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2009). The relation Accompanying Circumstance across Languages. In Turner, Ken & Dingfang, Shu (Ed.), Contrasting Meaning in Languages of the East and West. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9783039118861. p. 531–551. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2009). Introduction to contributions in Structuring information in discourse: the explicit/implicit dimension. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). 1(1), p. 2–16. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2008). Explaining advanced L2: Discourse properties of cordinating conjunction in English L1 and advanced L2. In Ramm, Wiebke & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (Ed.), Linearization and Segmentation in Discourse Multidisciplinary Approaches to Discourse 2008. Dep of Literature, Area studies and European Languages. p. 17–31. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Carston, Robyn (2007). Making Connections - linguistic or Pragmatic? In Nilsen, Randi; Amfo, Nana Aba Appiah & Borthen, Kaja (Ed.), Interpreting Utterances: Pragmatics and Its Interfaces. Essays in Honour of Throstein Fretheim. Novus Forlag. ISSN 9788270994557. p. 51–79. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2006). What the Structure of Criterion Predicates Told Me. In Solstad, Torgrim; Grønn, Atle & Haug, Dag Trygve Truslew (Ed.), A Festschrift for Kjell Johan Sæbø: In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Celebration of his 50th Birthday. Forfatterne. ISSN 9788299728904. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The festschrift contains contributions from the following authors: Bergljot Behrens, Reinhard Blutner, Pål Kristian Eriksen, Cathrine Fabricius-Hansen, Jens Erik Fenstad, Atle Grønn, Janne Bondi Johannessen, Sveta Krasikova, Jan Tore Lønning, Doris Penka, Wiebke Ramm, Torgrim Solstad, Arnim von Stechow, Ingebjørg Tonne, Eirik Welo, Henk Zeevat and Thomas Ede Zimmermann

• Behrens, Bergljot (2006). Language-Based Processing in Advanced L2 Production and Translation: An Exploratory Study. In Byrnes, Heidi; Weger-Guntharp, Heather D. & Sprang, Katherine (Ed.), Educating for Advanced Foreign Language Capacities. Georgetown University Press. ISSN 9781589011182. p. 74–86. Full text in Research Archive
• Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Ramm, Wiebke; Solfjeld, Kåre & Behrens, Bergljot (2005). Coordination, discourse relations, and information packaging - cross-linguistic differences. In Aurnague, M.; Bras, M.; Draoulec, A. Le & Vieu, L. (Ed.), Proceedings of the Symposium on the Exploration and Modelling of Meaning (SEM-05), Biarritz, France, November 14-15 2005. (Redaktørene). p. 85–93. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Taking non-correspondences regarding coordinated constructions in translation as a starting point, we discuss the interpretation of coordinated structures as compared to non-coordinated alternatives. We show that Norwegian tends to exploit coordination somewhat differently than English or German, and point at some interesting theoretical implications with respect to discourse structure and discourse relations.

• Behrens, Bergljot (2005). Cohesive ties in translation. A contrastive study of the Norwegian connective DERMED. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. 5(1), p. 3–32. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Ramm, Wiebke (2003). "Ser vi det samme eller er vi styrt av vår språklige kode? Om perspektivering på tvers av språk. NOA - Norsk som andrespråk. ISSN 0801-3284. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Det blåses liv i Sapir/Whorf-hypotesen om forholdet mellom språk og tanke. Typologiske forskjeller mellom engelsk, tysk og norsk påvirker perspektivet informanter tar på en rekke hendelser de er bedt om å sette ord på. Analysene bygger på informantdata innsamlet ved Universitetet i Heidelberg og Universeitetet i Oslo. Artikkelen tar spesielt opp a) setningsåpning i de tre språkene og b) utvelgelse av nevneverdige objekter. Begge temaene analyseres i lys av forskjeller i grammatikaliserte struktureer i de tre språkene.

• Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2002). Translation equivalents as empirical data for semantic/pragmatic theory. In Jaszczolt, K & Turner, Ken (Ed.), Meaning through Lnaguage Contrast vol 2. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027251190. p. 463–477. Full text in Research Archive

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• Hasselgård, Hilde; Johansson, Stig; Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2002). Information Structure in a Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Brill | Rodopi. ISBN 9789042014695. 228 p. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The present volume draws together contributions from a number of scholars with an interest in empirical, cross-linguistic description. Most of the papers were first presented at the symposium Information Structure in a Cross-linguistic Perspective held in Oslo in November/December 2000. The descriptions are functionally oriented, and their common focus is how information structure ¿ in a broad sense ¿ can be compared across languages. 'Information structure' has been approached in a variety of ways by the authors, so as to give a broad picture of this fundamental principle of text production, involving the way in which a speaker/writer chooses to present a message in terms of given/new information, focus, cohesion, and point of view. Central to much of the research is the problem of establishing criteria for isolating linguistic constraints on language use from cultural-linguistic conventions in text production. The linguistic comparison includes English, German and/or one of the Scandinavian languages, with sidelights to other languages. Most of the papers are text- or corpus-based, and the ongoing work on parallel corpora in Scandinavia is reflected in several contributions.

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• Johnsen, Lars Gunnarsønn Bagøien & Behrens, Bergljot (2019). Presens partisipp i norsk. Originale og oversatte tekster. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2018). Access to internalized grammar in L2 and translation. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Pitz, Anneliese Pauline; Helland, Hans Petter & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2017). Introduction to Possessives in L2 and translation: basic principles and empirical findings. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). 9(2), p. 1–2. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2016). SPROSS (språklig prosessering) - forskning på leseforståelse i L2 og oversettelse til L1. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2016). Syntactic representations in translation into L1. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Novice and professional translators have been found to translate possessive pronouns differently when they appear in an English participial adjunct clause like the following: Peter found the dog sleeping in his car. The problem arises because Norwegian distinguishes between reflexive (SIN) and non-reflexive (HANS) possessive pronouns. With a view to translation training, what ‘grammar’ is it that the professional translator has internalized? Both groups being L1 speakers of the target language, they would be expected to have the same internalized grammar. Their different solutions, however, may indicate that this is not the case, and that priming is not the only answer to the differences. Possibly, novices have a vaguer representation in need of cognitive restructuring and strengthening. In this paper I discuss constraints on binding for possessive pronouns in Norwegian, with reference to analyses found in the INESS grammar for Norwegian and to translation process data recently collected from 11 students and 11 professional translators.

• Behrens, Bergljot (2016). Restructuring processes in Translation. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2016). Processing Possessives in English-Norwegian Translation. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2016). The translation task - what's holding the translator up? Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2016). Process based translation studies. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2016). Product based translation studies. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2016). Researching procedural information in translation: an evaluation. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Bangalore, Srinivas; Schaeffer, Moritz; Carl, Michael; Heilmann, Arndt & Sturm, Annegret (2015). Syntactic Variance and Priming Effects in Translation. In Carl, Michael; Bangalore, Srinivas & Schaeffer, Moritz (Ed.), New Directions in Empirical Translation Research. Springer. ISSN 9783319203577. p. 222–256. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2014). Translation Research at the University of Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2014). Gazing at the Source text i translation - what's going on? Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2014). Translating - What's holding you up? Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2013). Kontrastiv og translatologisk språkforskning. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  presentasjon av forholdet mellom kontrastiv og translatologisk språkforskning med eksempel på et translatologisk pilotstudium - om substantivsyken i oversatte tekster

• Behrens, Bergljot; Schmiedtová, Barbara; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Hemforth, Barbara (2012). Understanding coordinate clauses in Czech, English, German, and Norwegian. Full text in Research Archive
• Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Behrens, Bergljot; Jr, Charles Clifton & Frazier, Lyn (2012). Pairing form and meaning in English and Norwegian: Conjoined VPs or conjoined clauses? Full text in Research Archive
• Hemforth, Barbara; Borthen, Kaja; Schmiedtová, Barbara; Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2012). Referring expressions in direct and indirect speech in Czech, English, German, and Norwegian. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2011). Fremmedgjøring i oversettelse -et litterært og et lingvistisk perspektiv. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2011). Expository texts and norms in translation. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Schmiedtová, Barbara (2011). Achievement of Written Narrative Competence in L2: Comparing German and Norwegian Learners of English. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Schmiedtová, Barbara; Hemforth, Barbara & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2011). Understanding coordinate clauses: a cross-linguistic experimental approach. Full text in Research Archive
• Solfjeld, Kåre; Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2010). Syntactic form at play with discourse relations. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2010). Syntax at play with discourse relations. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2010). Kompensasjon i oversettelse. Full text in Research Archive
• Solfjeld, Kåre & Behrens, Bergljot (2009). Discourse role guiding translation choice. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Solfjeld, Kåre (2009). Discourse role guiding clause type and relative position in translation. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2008). "Hun er ute og padler" - a spatial progressive? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In this paper I discuss the absentive characterization of the locative structure "be out and V" in Norwegian and argue that translation between this structure and the English progressive requires a "conceptual shift" from the spatial domain to the temporal domain. The strong locative feature of the Norwegian forms is taken to be a relevant factor in explaining the misuse of the progressive by even advanced Norwegian speakers of English as a second language.

• Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Behrens, Bergljot (2008). Expository texts. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2008). Linearization of narrative in English L1 and advanced L2. Coordinating structure. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2007). Parallel Corpora and lexical semantics. Semantic Mirrors. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2007). Contrastive linguistics: an overview. Data and research goals. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2007). Semantics and pragmatics in Contrastive Analysis. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2007). "Non-finite dependencies and discourse structure". Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Hasselgård, Hilde & Johansson, Karl Albert Stig (2007). Information Structuring Resources in Contrast. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. 7(2). Full text in Research Archive
• Solfjeld, Kåre; Ramm, Wiebke; Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2005). Coordination, discourse relations, and information packaging - cross-linguistic differences. Full text in Research Archive
• Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Ramm, Wiebke; Solfjeld, Kåre & Behrens, Bergljot (2005). Coordination, discourse relations, and information packaging- cross-linguistic differences. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Taking non-correspondences regarding coordinated constructions in translation as a starting point, we discuss the interpretation of coordinated structures as compared to non-coordinated alternatives. We show that Norwegian tends to exploit coordination somewhat differently than English or German, and point at some interesting theoretical implications with respect to discourse structure and discourse relations.

• Behrens, Bergljot (2005). Ekvivalens og/eller relevans i oversettelse. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2005). Temporal and non-temporal dimensions of the discourse relation Accompanying Circumstance. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2005). On the interface between advanced L2 and marked translation into L1. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2005). The discourse relation Accompanying Circumstance across languages. Conflict between linguistic expression and discourse subordination? Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2004). Markerte trekk i norske oversettelser. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2004). Voice in literary translation. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2004). Bokomtale: J.B.Johannessen (red): På språkjakt - problemer og utfordringer i språkvitenskapelig datainnsamling. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-3076. p. 269–274. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2003). Pidgin-norsk eller mellomnorsk - om språklige trekk i oversettelse av tekster fra flerkulturelle mijøer. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot (2003). Elaboration across languages. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  A discussion of the variety of semantic relations within the discourse category Elaboration - an analysis of the Norwegian connective DERMED in translation to and from German and English based on the OMC corpus

• Behrens, Bergljot (2003). On discourse coherence in translation. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  the use and disuse of comparable discourse markers in English,German and Norwegian on the basis of translation corpora (OMC: Oslo mulitilingual corpus)- an approach to stating general constraints that regulate translational choice

• Behrens, Bergljot (2003). Contrastive linguistics and translation �a study of the Norwegian connective dermed. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The Norwegian connective DERMED is discussed in a semantic and translational perspective. The semantic meaning is found to be vague and context is found to be important for restrcting the relation between the propositions linked. The use of the connective in Norwegian translation clearly influenced by the source language.

• Behrens, Bergljot (2002). Oversettelsesstrategier i litterær oversettelse. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Oversetterens ansvar, oversettelsesstrategier, implisitt informasjon i kontrastivt perspektiv.

• Behrens, Bergljot & Ramm, Wiebke (2002). Om perspektivtaking på tvers av språk. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  hvordan norske hendelsesbeskrivelser fremstår i forhold til tyske og engelske. Norsk muntlig språkdata sett i lys av engelske og tyske data på grunnlag av samme input.

• Behrens, Bergljot (2002). Language-dependent discourse constraints The case of non-subject argument topicalization. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Discussion of the distributional differences in non-subject argument topicalization in English,German and Norwegian and possible restrictions on types of subject that may appear in such structures. Referents' degrees of givenness related to the distributional facts. Data based on the parallel Corpus OMC

• Behrens, Bergljot (2001). Kontrastiv stilistikk i oversettelse. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Eksplisitering og stilistiske krav i forskjellige typer oversettelse

• Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Behrens, Bergljot (2001). Crosslinguistic constraints on expressing elaboration. Full text in Research Archive
• Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Behrens, Bergljot (2001). Elaboration and related discourse relations viewed from an interlingual perspective. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2000). Connectives in Contrast. A discourse semantic study based on Corpus Research. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  From a linguistic as well as a translatological point of view we are interested in establishing the interrelation between the variety of expressions used across closely related languages for the textual and semantic concept Elaboration. Goals: 1. We aim to come to a better understanding of the problematic concept Elaboration 2. We aim to determine the cross linguistic constraints on the various expressions used to express Elaboration. 3. We believe that our study of cross linguistic variation will contribute to delimit the category Elaboration 4. A refined understanding of the meaning of the expressions and their textual function will help us understand the factors that influence translational choice

• Behrens, Bergljot (2000). En innføring i teori og metode i oversettelsesstudier. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  I forelesningen gi jeg en oversikt over vanlige strategier i oversettelse mellom engelsk og norsk, og diskuterer dem som grunnlag for en lingvistisk orientert teori om oversettelse. Eksempler er hentet fra eget materiale og OMC.

• Behrens, Bergljot & Solstad, Torgrim (2000). Setningskoplingens betydning. En metodisk elaborering over elaboreringer. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Denne forelesningen har et dobbelt mål. På den ene siden vil vi diskutere Elaborering som en semantisk setningskoplingskategori. Vi er spesielt interessert i hvordan elaboreringer uttrykkes i engelsk, tysk og norsk, og hvordan et kontrastivt studium av variasjonen i uttrykksmidler kan bidra til å få isolert bestanddelene i kategorien. På den annen side vil vi fokusere på metode i kontrastive språkstudier. I vårt kontrastive studium av Elaborering gjør vi utstrakt bruk av søk i parallellkorpuset OMC. Vi presenterer Dyvik-metoden, og viser hvordan den gir oss tilgang til viktige data for vår analyse.

• Behrens, Bergljot (2000). Diskurslenking, Underordning og Oversettelse. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Diskurslenking, underordning og oversettelse "I oversettelse mellom språk må vi ofte gjøre om og flytte på elementene i originalteksten for å få en naturlig tekst i mottakerspråket. I denne forelesningen vil jeg diskutere bisetningers funksjon i et tekstlig perspektiv og vise hvordan plasseringen kan ha konsekvenser for tekstens innhold. En bevisstgjøring av forholdet mellom bisetningenes plassering og tekstens innhold kan bidra til å etablere regler for tekstmanipulering i oversettelse. Tekstmaterialet er på norsk og engelsk."

• Behrens, Bergljot (2000). Parallel Corpora in Translation Research. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The lecture presents the design of the Oslo Multilingual Corpus, and the contrastive linguistic research made possible by it. Examples are given of discourse semantic as well as lexical semantic descriptions made on the basis of systematic corpus research.

• Behrens, Bergljot & Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine (2000). Translation Equivalents as Empirical Data for semantic/pragmatic Theory. The Case of Elaboration. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  The paper aims to contribute to the explication of the discourse theoretic concept Elaboration and the semantic description of relevant connectives in three closely related languages. The paper focuses on the variety of expressions used to signal this relation in German, English and Norwegian, and the apparent consequences such a variety may have for semantic representation. The method used is translational: authentic texts and their translations are used to establish correspondences as "semantic mirrors" (Dyvik 1998). The study is part of a larger project currently developing at the University of Oslo, in which we aim at reaching new insight into the ways discourse is structured in the three languages, on the basis of data collected from the Oslo Multilingual Corpus (OMC).

• Behrens, Bergljot & Sæbø, Kjell Johan (1997). Events and Context Sensitivity. Full text in Research Archive
• Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Behrens, Bergljot & Krave, Maria Filiouchkina (2006). Pre-Proceedings of the SPRIK Conference 2006: Explicit and Implicit Information in Text. Information Structure across Languages. Project "SPRIK" (SPRåk I Kontrast). Full text in Research Archive
• Solfjeld, Kåre; Ramm, Wiebke; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine & Behrens, Bergljot (2005). Coordination, discourse relations, and information packaging - cross-linguistic differences. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Christensen, Bente (2003). Oversettelse i teori og praksis. Rapport fra 1. seminar om oversettelse i samarbeid mellom ANLA, Norsk Oversetterforening og Universitetet i Oslo, mai 2003. Novus Forlag. Full text in Research Archive
• Behrens, Bergljot & Ramm, Wiebke (2002). Perspective taking across languages. Universitetet i Heidelberg. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Norsk bidrag til prosjekt innen kontrastive studier av språklig prosessering

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