Johan Elsness

• Elsness, Johan (2016). English in South Africa: the case of past-referring verb forms. In Lopez-Couso, Maria Jose; Méndez-Naya, Belén; Núñez-Pertejo, Paloma & Palacios-Martínez, Ignacio M. (Ed.), Corpus linguistics on the move: Exploring and understanding English through corpora.. De Gruyter Brill. ISSN 9789004308077. p. 179–203. doi: 10.1163/9789004321342_010. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2014). The present perfect and the preterite in Late Modern and Contemporary English: a longitudinal look. In Davidse, Kristin; Gentens, Caroline; Ghesquière, Lobke & Vandelanotte, Lieven (Ed.), Corpus Interrogation and Grammatical Patterns. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027203717. p. 81–103. doi: 10.1075/scl.63.08els. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2014). Clausal modifiers in noun phrases: a comparison of English and Norwegian based on the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Oslo Studies in Language (OSLa). 6(1), p. 91–118. doi: 10.5617/osla.718. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2013). Gender, culture and language: Evidence from language corpora about the development of cultural differences between English-speaking countries. In Andersen, Gisle & Bech, Kristin (Ed.), English corpus linguistics : variation in time, space and genre : selected papers from ICAME 32. Brill | Rodopi. ISSN 9789042036796. p. 113–137. doi: 10.1163/9789401209403_008. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2009). The perfect and the preterite in Australian and New Zealand English. In Peters, Pam; Collins, Peter & Smith, Adam (Ed.), Comparative studies in Australian and New Zealand English: Grammar and beyond. John Benjamins Publishing Company. ISSN 9789027248992. p. 89–114. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2009). The present perfect and the preterite. In Rohdenburg, Günter & Schlüter, Julia (Ed.), One language, two grammars? Differences between British and American English. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9780521183963. p. 228–245. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2009). The present perfect and the preterite. In Rohdenburg, Günter & Schlüter, Julia (Ed.), One language, two grammars? Differences between British and American English. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9780521872195. p. 228–245. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2003). A contrastive look at the present perfect/preterite opposition in English and Norwegian. Languages in Contrast: International Journal for Contrastive Linguistics. ISSN 1387-6759. 3(1), p. 3–40. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2002). American English, in a very broad perspective (med omtale av Gunnel Tottie, An introduction to American English). Nordic Journal of English Studies (NJES). ISSN 1502-7694. 1(2), p. 299–316. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1994). On the progression of the progressive in early Modern English. ICAME Journal. ISSN 0801-5775. 18, p. 5–25. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1990). The present perfect in American and British English: Some results from an elicitation test. In Caie, Graham; Haastrup, Kirsten; Jakobsen, Arnt Lykke; Nielsen, Jørgen Erik; Sevaldsen, Jørgen & Specht, Henrik (Ed.), Proceedings from the Fourth Nordic Conference for English Studies. Københavns Universitet. p. 169–178. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1989). The English present perfect: Has it seen its best days? In Breivik, Leiv Egil; Hille, Arnoldus & Johansson, Stig (Ed.), Essays on English language in honour of Bertil Sundby. Novus Forlag. p. 95–106. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1984). The preterite and the perfect in BBC news bulletins: The case for a text linguistic approach. In Ringbom, Håkan & Rissanen, Matti (Ed.), Proceedings from the Second Nordic Conference for English Studies. Åbo. p. 159–171. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1984). That or zero? A look at the choice of object clause connective in a corpus of American English. English Studies: A Journal of English Language. ISSN 0013-838X. 65, p. 519–533. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1982). That v. zero connective in English nominal clauses. ICAME News. ISSN 0800-6806. 6, p. 1–45. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1981). On the syntactic and semantic functions of that-clauses. In Johansson, Stig & Tysdahl, Bjørn (Ed.), Papers from the First Nordic Conference for English Studies. Britisk institutt, Oslo. p. 281–303. Full text in Research Archive

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• Elsness, Johan (1997). The perfect and the preterite in contemporary and earlier English. De Gruyter Mouton. ISBN 9783110146868. 449 p. Full text in Research Archive

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• Elsness, Johan (2022). Minnetale over professor Arthur Olav Sandved. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2018). Review of Valentin Werner, Elena Seoane and Cristina Suárez-Gómez (eds.), Re-assessing the present perfect (Topics in English Linguistics 91) Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, 2016. Pp. x + 353. ISBN 9783110443110. English Language and Linguistics. ISSN 1360-6743. doi: 10.1017/S1360674318000047. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2016). Past time in English, Norwegian and German (with a side glance at Swedish [and Danish]). Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2014). Past-referring verb constructions in English, Norwegian and German: a contrastive look. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2013). Clausal modifiers in noun phrases:a comparison of English and Norwegianbased on the Oslo Multilingual Corpus. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2013). The postmodifying structure of noun phrases: a contrastive study of English and Norwegian. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2013). English in South Africa: the case of past-referring verb forms. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2013). The study of English as an international language: possibilities and methods. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2013). Tense and aspect in the antipodean Englishes: Methods and results. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2012). The present perfect in late Modern English: A longitudinal look. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2012). Two for the price of one: on the history of the English progressive. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2011). Language and culture: On evidence from language corpora about the development of cultural differences between English-speaking countries. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2011). Grammaticalisation in the verb phrase: the case of the English progressive. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2010). Language and culture. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2008). Language and culture: What electronic corpora can tell us about Britain and the United States. British Politics Review. ISSN 1890-4505. 3(4), p. 10–11. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2007). Tense and aspect at the crossroads: The present perfect/preterite distinction in Australian and other varieties of English. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2004). English Down Under. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2004). English and English Studies in Australia. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2004). Divided by a common language - Noen forskjeller mellom amerikansk og britisk engelsk som norske oversettere bør være oppmerksomme på. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2004). Colonial lead? On the development of the present perfect/preterite opposition in American and British English. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2003). They all eat tomatoes: On differences between American and British English. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2003). Nyttig innføring i amerikansk engelsk (anmeldelse av Gunnel Tottie: Introduction to American English). Utdanning. ISSN 1502-9778. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2002). Moderne middelalder. Chaucers Canterbury Tales i norsk gjendiktning. St. Olav : Katolsk tidsskrift for religion og kultur. ISSN 0802-6726. 114(6/7), p. 16–18. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2002). They all eat tomatoes: On differences between American and British English. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (2001). Oversettelse og interferens: Distribusjonen mellom perfektum og preteritum i engelsk og norsk. (Foredrag for Forum for Flerspråklig Forskning, Språk i Kontrast, UiO, 8. november 2001.). Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Foredraget tar utgangspunkt i at skillet mellom (presens) perfektum og preteritum trekkes omtrent på samme måte i norsk og engelsk: Perfektum brukes om handlinger som strekker seg fra et punkt i fortiden opp til utsagnsøyeblikket (og av og til videre inn i fremtiden), og dessuten om handlinger i fortiden uten noen klar tidsdefinisjon. Dersom en fortidshandling er knyttet til en klart avgrenset tidsdefinisjon, er bruken av perfektum vanligvis blokkert i både engelsk og norsk (som dermed avviker sterkt fra tysk, fransk og en rekke andre språk). Preteritum brukes om handlinger som er knyttet til et punkt eller en periode i fortiden, skjønt det varierer sterkt hvor nøyaktig disse er bestemt; i tilfelle der tidsbestemmelsen er vag, vil ofte både perfektum og preteritum kunne brukes i begge språk. Det er likevel tegn som tyder på at restriksjonene på bruken av perfektum ikke praktiseres fullt så strengt i norsk som i engelsk. Norske setninger som ¿Bondevik har avsluttet ringerunden tidlig i går kveld.¿ er antagelig mer vanlige enn tilsvarende engelske setninger. Dessuten er det et par tilfelle der det er en meget klar forskjell mellom norsk og engelsk: Dersom verbet refererer til det som kan kalles en unik fortidshandling, bruker engelsk preteritum selv om det ikke gis noen nærmere tidsdefinisjon, mens norsk ofte har perfektum (engelsk ¿Who wrote this book?¿ mot norsk ¿Hvem er det som har skrevet denne boken?¿). Og det Einar Haugen omtaler som ¿referential¿ perfektum i de skandinaviske språk og som Norsk Referansegrammatikk omtaler som ¿rekonstruerende¿ perfektum, har ingen motsvarighet i engelsk. En omfattende undersøkelse av verbformene i Engelsk-norsk Parallellkorpus viser at det er ganske stor forskjell i frekvensfordelingen av perfektum og preteritum mellom norsk og engelsk, særlig i de litterære tekstene. Undersøkelsen viser også en klar forskjell mellom originale og oversatte tekster i begge språk: Perfektum er generelt mer frekvent i norsk enn i engelsk, på bekostning av preteritum, men ikke fullt så frekvent i norske tekster som er oversatt fra engelsk som i originale norske tekster, og noe mer frekvent i engelsk tekster som er oversatt fra norsk enn i originale engelske tekster. Dette tilskrives interferens fra kildepråket til målspråket i oversettelsesprosessen.

• Elsness, Johan (1998). Evaluation of English Studies in Norway. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1998). The perfect and the preterite in English and Norwegian: Some impressions from the English-Norwegian Parallel Corpus. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1997). Underhusvalget i Storbritannia: New Labours store sjanse? [Radio]. Oslo : Radio Nova. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1997). Underhusvalget i Storbritannia. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1995). American and British English - more than a difference of accent! Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1995). American and British English: What is the difference? Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1994). Coming of age as an independent verb form: On the history of the present perfect in English. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1993). Kampen om det politiske initiativet. Kronikk om Margaret Thatcher: "The Downing Street Years". Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1993). American and British English: More than a difference of accent? Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1992). The progressive and other aspects of the English verb: Anything new? Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1982). Sprog og dialekt, skrift og tale. Kronikk. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1982). Skrift, tale og normering. Språknytt. ISSN 0333-3825. 10(4), p. 1–3. Full text in Research Archive
• Elsness, Johan (1991). The perfect and the preterite. The expression of past time in contemporary and earlier English. Universitetet i Oslo. Full text in Research Archive

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