Miina Norvik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1231313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miina Norvik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miina |
| FAMILY NAME | Norvik |
| SIGNATURE | NORVIK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Uppsala University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5240-6825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Role of Burdah and Ngelenggang Religious Rituals in Preserving the Loloan Malay Language in West Bali
Loloan Malay is an endangered indigenous language which is also the identity of a minority Muslim community in Jembrana, West Bali. In the midst of the strong Hindu influence in Bali, the Loloan people try to maintain their different linguistic and cultural heritage through oral traditions such as Burdah and Ngelenggang—ritual performances presenting religious verse recitations accompanied by percussion performed during a seven-month pregnancy. T…
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk
The present paper analyses self-reflexive opinions of 33 Estonians about small talk; it is based on interviews carried out in 2020–2022. The main topics covered in the paper are what participants consider small talk situations, how they feel in such situations, and what kind of topics they bring up or avoid. While silent Finns and silent Scandinavians appear in the literature almost as terms, research on Estonians and their behaviour has been sca…
Prediction ability in bilingual individuals
Studies with monolingual speakers show that people predict upcoming linguistic elements during sentence processing. Linguistic prediction behavior has been found to be less consistent in studies with bilingual individuals performing in their non-native language and in neurotypical older monolingual adults. The present study utilized an eye-tracking paradigm to investigate whether bilingual younger and older neurotypical individuals predict upcomi…
Aastat lingvistikaolümpiaadi koos Renate Pajusaluga
Rahvusvaheline lingvistikaolümpiaad kutsuti ellu 2003. aastal. Eestis seati see sisse samal aastal tänu Renate Pajusalule, kes seda vedama asus. Siinne artikkel vaatabki tagasi 20-le lingvistikaolümpiaadi aastale ning Renate rollile selles, tehes seda Renate kaasteeliste pilgu läbi. Artiklis leiavad kajastust erinevad võistlusvoorud, aga ka olümpiaadi heaks tehtavad tegevused, nagu lingvistikalaagrid, koolikülastused ja lingvistikaseminarid. Ühtl…
Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory
To date, the evidence regarding the effect of bilingualism/multilingualism on short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) capacity is inconclusive. This study investigates whether multilingualism has a positive effect on the verbal STM and WM capacity of neurotypical middle-aged and older individuals. Eighty-two L1-Norwegian sequential bilingual/multilingual academics were tested with tasks measuring verbal STM/WM capacity. Degree of bilingua…
Livonian polar questions in their areal context
This paper analyses strategies for forming polar questions and their historical sources in the two main varieties of Livonian – Courland Livonian and Salaca Livonian. The results reveal that the main means for marking polar questions in both varieties are sentence-initial particles. Their usage is compared to the means found in other varieties spoken in the Central Baltic area. This micro-areal comparison offers an in-depth analysis of the main p…
Working with multilingual aphasia
The growing number of elderly multilingual speakers suffering from strokes and aphasia requires a change in the services of speech and language pathologists (SLPs), who will be serving culturally and linguistically diverse individuals to an increasing extent. Two American studies have shown that a majority of SLPs who work with multilingual adults in the US felt that their academic and clinical training had left them insufficiently prepared for w…
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on t…
The South Estonian language islands in the context of the Central Baltic area
This article offers a comparative analysis of several morphosyntactic and phonological features in the South Estonian language islands: Leivu, Lutsi, and Kraasna. The objective is to give an overview of the distribution of selected features, their (in)stability over time, and discuss their form and use in a broader areal context. To achieve this goal, comparative information was also included from the closest cognate varieties (Estonian and the S…
New tools for studying Finnish archaeology and Uralic languages
Between 2018 and 2020 the Kipot ja kielet [Beakers and Speakers] project (KiKi) collected a typological database of archaeological artefacts in Finland and a typological linguistic database of Uralic languages. Both datasets will be accessible through a public online interface (URHIA) from 2021. The data will help integrate Finnish- and Uralic-speaking areas into global perspectives on human history
Üldise muutumistähendusega verbid ja neid sisaldavad lausetüübid läänemeresoome keeltes
General change-of-state predicates and associated clause types in the Finnic languages Change-of-state can be associated with inchoative meanings, transition from one state to another, usually with the focus on the new state, but it can also be linked to the emergence of a situation or an entity, or change of possession. In every Finnic language, there tends to be one such predicate that is used to express change, but it is never the only one. Th…
The expression of change-of-state in the Finnic languages
The present article studies verbs that are used to convey change-of-state in the Finnic languages: “to come”, “to go”, “to remain/stay”, “to get”, “will be”, “to make/do”, and “to be born/give birth”. These are polysemous core verbs, which can be expected to be integrated in constructions with (new) generalized grammatical meaning. As will be shown, in order to convey change-of-state typically they occur in constructions that either mark the goal…
Balti areaali tüpoloogilisi sarnasusi morfosüntaksi valdkonnas
Balti areaal on kahte eri keelkonda kuuluvate keelte kohtumispaik
Verbi "hakkama" tähendusnihked eesti ja liivi keeles
napeva eesti kirjakeele verbi hakkama phithendused "Eesti keele seletava snaraamatu" (EKSS) jrgi on seotud alguse vljendamisega: 1) 'mingi tegevuse juurde asuma, midagi alustama', 2) 'tekkima (aistingu, tunde, meeleolu vms puhul)', 3) 'mingisse ametisse, talale asuma', 4) 'algama, peale hakkama'. Lisaks thendab hakkama ka 'millestki kinni haarama; kuhugi kinni jma'. Liivi keele vastel akk eristab "Liivi-eesti-lti snaraamat" (Viitso, Ern!treits 20…
The South Estonian language islands in the context of the Central Baltic area
This article offers a comparative analysis of several morphosyntactic and phonological features in the South Estonian language islands: Leivu, Lutsi, and Kraasna. The objective is to give an overview of the distribution of selected features, their (in)stability over time, and discuss their form and use in a broader areal context. To achieve this goal, comparative information was also included from the closest cognate varieties (Estonian and the S…
Balti areaali tüpoloogilisi sarnasusi morfosüntaksi valdkonnas
Balti areaal on kahte eri keelkonda kuuluvate keelte kohtumispaik
Verbi "hakkama" tähendusnihked eesti ja liivi keeles
napeva eesti kirjakeele verbi hakkama phithendused "Eesti keele seletava snaraamatu" (EKSS) jrgi on seotud alguse vljendamisega: 1) 'mingi tegevuse juurde asuma, midagi alustama', 2) 'tekkima (aistingu, tunde, meeleolu vms puhul)', 3) 'mingisse ametisse, talale asuma', 4) 'algama, peale hakkama'. Lisaks thendab hakkama ka 'millestki kinni haarama; kuhugi kinni jma'. Liivi keele vastel akk eristab "Liivi-eesti-lti snaraamat" (Viitso, Ern!treits 20…
Üldise muutumistähendusega verbid ja neid sisaldavad lausetüübid läänemeresoome keeltes
General change-of-state predicates and associated clause types in the Finnic languages Change-of-state can be associated with inchoative meanings, transition from one state to another, usually with the focus on the new state, but it can also be linked to the emergence of a situation or an entity, or change of possession. In every Finnic language, there tends to be one such predicate that is used to express change, but it is never the only one. Th…
The expression of change-of-state in the Finnic languages
The present article studies verbs that are used to convey change-of-state in the Finnic languages: “to come”, “to go”, “to remain/stay”, “to get”, “will be”, “to make/do”, and “to be born/give birth”. These are polysemous core verbs, which can be expected to be integrated in constructions with (new) generalized grammatical meaning. As will be shown, in order to convey change-of-state typically they occur in constructions that either mark the goal…
The South Estonian language islands in the context of the Central Baltic area
This article offers a comparative analysis of several morphosyntactic and phonological features in the South Estonian language islands: Leivu, Lutsi, and Kraasna. The objective is to give an overview of the distribution of selected features, their (in)stability over time, and discuss their form and use in a broader areal context. To achieve this goal, comparative information was also included from the closest cognate varieties (Estonian and the S…
New tools for studying Finnish archaeology and Uralic languages
Between 2018 and 2020 the Kipot ja kielet [Beakers and Speakers] project (KiKi) collected a typological database of archaeological artefacts in Finland and a typological linguistic database of Uralic languages. Both datasets will be accessible through a public online interface (URHIA) from 2021. The data will help integrate Finnish- and Uralic-speaking areas into global perspectives on human history
Livonian polar questions in their areal context
This paper analyses strategies for forming polar questions and their historical sources in the two main varieties of Livonian – Courland Livonian and Salaca Livonian. The results reveal that the main means for marking polar questions in both varieties are sentence-initial particles. Their usage is compared to the means found in other varieties spoken in the Central Baltic area. This micro-areal comparison offers an in-depth analysis of the main p…
Working with multilingual aphasia
The growing number of elderly multilingual speakers suffering from strokes and aphasia requires a change in the services of speech and language pathologists (SLPs), who will be serving culturally and linguistically diverse individuals to an increasing extent. Two American studies have shown that a majority of SLPs who work with multilingual adults in the US felt that their academic and clinical training had left them insufficiently prepared for w…
Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss
While global patterns of human genetic diversity are increasingly well characterized, the diversity of human languages remains less systematically described. Here we outline the Grambank database. With over 400,000 data points and 2,400 languages, Grambank is the largest comparative grammatical database available. The comprehensiveness of Grambank allows us to quantify the relative effects of genealogical inheritance and geographic proximity on t…
Aastat lingvistikaolümpiaadi koos Renate Pajusaluga
Rahvusvaheline lingvistikaolümpiaad kutsuti ellu 2003. aastal. Eestis seati see sisse samal aastal tänu Renate Pajusalule, kes seda vedama asus. Siinne artikkel vaatabki tagasi 20-le lingvistikaolümpiaadi aastale ning Renate rollile selles, tehes seda Renate kaasteeliste pilgu läbi. Artiklis leiavad kajastust erinevad võistlusvoorud, aga ka olümpiaadi heaks tehtavad tegevused, nagu lingvistikalaagrid, koolikülastused ja lingvistikaseminarid. Ühtl…
Multilingualism and verbal short-term/working memory
To date, the evidence regarding the effect of bilingualism/multilingualism on short-term memory (STM) and working memory (WM) capacity is inconclusive. This study investigates whether multilingualism has a positive effect on the verbal STM and WM capacity of neurotypical middle-aged and older individuals. Eighty-two L1-Norwegian sequential bilingual/multilingual academics were tested with tasks measuring verbal STM/WM capacity. Degree of bilingua…
The not so silent Estonians? Perceptions and practice of small talk
The present paper analyses self-reflexive opinions of 33 Estonians about small talk; it is based on interviews carried out in 2020–2022. The main topics covered in the paper are what participants consider small talk situations, how they feel in such situations, and what kind of topics they bring up or avoid. While silent Finns and silent Scandinavians appear in the literature almost as terms, research on Estonians and their behaviour has been sca…
Prediction ability in bilingual individuals
Studies with monolingual speakers show that people predict upcoming linguistic elements during sentence processing. Linguistic prediction behavior has been found to be less consistent in studies with bilingual individuals performing in their non-native language and in neurotypical older monolingual adults. The present study utilized an eye-tracking paradigm to investigate whether bilingual younger and older neurotypical individuals predict upcomi…
The Role of Burdah and Ngelenggang Religious Rituals in Preserving the Loloan Malay Language in West Bali
Loloan Malay is an endangered indigenous language which is also the identity of a minority Muslim community in Jembrana, West Bali. In the midst of the strong Hindu influence in Bali, the Loloan people try to maintain their different linguistic and cultural heritage through oral traditions such as Burdah and Ngelenggang—ritual performances presenting religious verse recitations accompanied by percussion performed during a seven-month pregnancy. T…
Linguistics (9 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Archaeology (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Estonian (4 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (4 works) · Psychology (4 works)