University of Tromsø Uit Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics (Castl)
UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ UIT FACULTY OF HUMANITIES, SOCIAL SCIENCES AND EDUCATION CENTER FOR ADVANCED STUDY IN THEORETICAL LINGUISTICS (CASTL) The Norwegian Nominal System – A Neo-Saussurean Perspective Madeleine Halmøy A dissertation for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor February 2010 The Norwegian Nominal System – A Neo-Saussurean Perspective Madeleine Halmøy Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, University of Tromsø, February 2010 Til Erlend Tore Nesset and Denis Bouchard – Denis Bouchard and Tore Nesset, for your untiring corrections, pertinent comments and well placed commas, for your thorough answers, your valuable insights and your different wisdom, for your availability, generosity, encouragements, patience and support, for listening to me, for helping me express what I want, for making me feel welcome to your offices and worthy of your time and interest – I am forever thankful. Without your excellent theory, Denis, this work would never have been conceived, and without your professional nurturing and insisting confidence, Tore, it would never have been born. You are both terrific role models in the way you conduct your own research as well as in the way you treat and respect your students. I have truly been twice as lucky as any PhD.-student possibly could be. I also want to thank my colleagues at CASTL for an inspiring social and intellectual environment – especially all my fellow PhD. students over the years – as well as the administrations at CASTL, at the Faculty of Humanities and at the University of Tromsø for providing excellent working conditions.* I spent two years as a visiting student with Denis Bouchard at Département de Linguistique et de Didactique de Langue at UQAM, Montréal, and thank everybody there for welcoming me.
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