8 articles in this issue
Tamara Lönngren
The aim of this article is to present the first results of a dialectological expedition undertaken by undergraduate and postgraduate students from the University of Tromsø to the Ter Coast of the White Sea. The paper presents some historical and ethnograp... see more
Margje Post
The present article presents some preliminary results of the study of some prosodic characteristics of the dialects of Varzuga and Umba, two Northern Russian villages on the Ter Coast of the White Sea. In our recently collected recordings, we observed a n... see more
David Pineda
The present article gives an overview of the morphological characteristics of the dialect of two villages on the Ter Coast of the Kola Peninsula, Varzuga and Umba. This topic has not previously been studied thoroughly. Features of this dialect are compare... see more
Maria Huld Petursdottir
This article presents the first results of the author's study of the ‘snow' lexicon on the Kola Peninsula. The findings about Russian dialects are compared to Icelandic.
Lennart Lönngren
This paper is an attempt to account for the following kind of para- phrasability: Edison invented the electric bulb - Edison was the inventor of the electric bulb. The proposal is that in the last sentence the holder of the first actant position has been ... see more
Jan Brodal
This article explores Puškin's poem "Klevetnikam Rossii", written on the occasion of the Polish uprising of 1830, named by the Poles themselves Powstanie Listopadowe.
Olga Komarova
The name of B. Akunin appeared on the Russian literary market about three years ago. His novel "Azazel" was announced as the first in a "literary project" which aimed at presenting "all genres of the classical criminal novel". The mysterious author manage... see more
Erik Egeberg
In his time, Konstantin Fofanov (1862-1911) was a very popular poet, especially so in the late 80-s and early 90-s. His verse is clearly influ- enced by Afanasij Fet, although Fofanov lacks the emotional intensity of that poet. In this respect he is close... see more