Kaja Borthen

About

Research interests

Pragmatics
Semantics (especially non-truth-conditional semantics)

I am interested in the encoded meaning of linguistic items and how these meanings together with pragmatic principles lead to specific interpretations of utterances in context. More specifically, I have worked on topics such as referring expressions, implicatures, and pragmatic particles.

Ongoing and previous research projects to which I have contributed (or led)

The meaning and function of NOrwegian Tags (NOT) (financed by the Research Council of Norway 2014-2017)
The Distribution and Meaning of Nominal Forms in Norwegian; a Cross-linguistic Perspective (RCN grant 2007-2009). Project leader: Thorstein Fretheim.
BREDT - Behandling av Referanse i Diskurs Teori (Goal: automatic anaphor resolution) (RCN grant 2003-2006). Project leader: Christer Johansson.
Norwegian bare singulars (PhD project 1999-2003)

Publications

2021

Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) Pronominal right-dislocation in Norwegian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. volum 6 (1).
Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) The Norwegian tag "da" in comparison to English "then". Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries.
Borthen, Kaja; Søfteland, Åshild; Kveen, Perlaug Marie; Karagjosova, Elena; Nøklestad, Anders. (2021) Finalpartiklar i norske talemål: Ei undersøking av variasjon knytt til geografi, alder og kjønn. Maal og Minne. volum 113 (1).

2019

Berthelin, Signe Rix; Borthen, Kaja. (2019) The semantics and pragmatics of Norwegian sentence-internal jo. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. volum 42 (1).
Hedberg, Nancy; Gundel, Jeanette K.; Borthen, Kaja. (2019) Different senses of 'referential'. The Oxford Handbook on Reference.

2018

Borthen, Kaja. (2018) Pronominal høyredislokering i norsk, det er et interessant fenomen, det. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 36 (2).
Borthen, Kaja. (2018) Store spørsmål om små ord. Innledning til temanummer om pragmatiske partikler i norsk. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 36 (2).
Søfteland, Åshild; Borthen, Kaja. (2018) "Æ e trønder, æ, sjø" Den pragmatiske partikkelen 'sjø' i midt-norske dialektar. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 2 (36).

2017

Rosén, Victoria; Borthen, Kaja. (2017) Norwegian bare singulars revisited. The very model of a modern linguist — in honor of Helge Dyvik.

2014

Borthen, Kaja. (2014) Hva betyr 'da', da?. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 32.
Borthen, Kaja; Hemforth, Barbara; Behrens, Bergljot; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Mertins, Barbara. (2014) Referring expressions in speech reports. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages.
Borthen, Kaja; Knudsen, Cecilie Slinning. (2014) Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved trykklett visst :. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 32 (2).
Borthen, Kaja; Thomassen, Gøril. (2014) Referential and functional aspects of the Norwegian first person plural 'vi'. Constructing collectivity. 'We' across languages and contexts.

2012

Borthen, Kaja; Berthelin, Signe Rix; Thomassen, Gøril. (2012) Om det uuttalte - det relevansteoretiske implikaturbegrepet i møte med autentiske data. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 30 (1).

2011

Borthen, Kaja. (2011) Response to Chen and Wu´s paper "Less well-behaved pronouns : Singular They in English and plural ta 'it/he/she' in Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics. volum 43 (1).

2010

Borthen, Kaja. (2010) On how we interpret plural pronouns. Journal of Pragmatics. volum 42 (7).
Fretheim, Thorstein; Borthen, Kaja; Brøseth, Heidi. (2010) Introduction: Linguistic and cognitive aspects of reference. Journal of Pragmatics. volum 42 (7).

2007

Borthen, Kaja. (2007) The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs. The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface.

2005

Borthen, Kaja; Haugereid, Petter. (2005) Representing Referential Properties of Nominals. Research on Language & Computation. volum 3 (2).

2003

Hegarty, Michael; Gundel, Jeanette; Borthen, Kaja. (2003) "Cognitive Status, Information Structure, and Pronominal Reference to Clausally Introduced Entities". Journal of Logic, Language and Information. volum 3.

2002

Hegarty, Michael; Gundel, Jeanette; Borthen, Kaja. (2002) "Information structure and the accessibility of clausally introduced referents". Theoretical Linguistics. volum 27.

Journal publications

Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) Pronominal right-dislocation in Norwegian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. volum 6 (1).
Borthen, Kaja; Søfteland, Åshild; Kveen, Perlaug Marie; Karagjosova, Elena; Nøklestad, Anders. (2021) Finalpartiklar i norske talemål: Ei undersøking av variasjon knytt til geografi, alder og kjønn. Maal og Minne. volum 113 (1).
Berthelin, Signe Rix; Borthen, Kaja. (2019) The semantics and pragmatics of Norwegian sentence-internal jo. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. volum 42 (1).
Borthen, Kaja. (2018) Pronominal høyredislokering i norsk, det er et interessant fenomen, det. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 36 (2).
Borthen, Kaja. (2018) Store spørsmål om små ord. Innledning til temanummer om pragmatiske partikler i norsk. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 36 (2).
Søfteland, Åshild; Borthen, Kaja. (2018) "Æ e trønder, æ, sjø" Den pragmatiske partikkelen 'sjø' i midt-norske dialektar. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 2 (36).
Borthen, Kaja. (2014) Hva betyr 'da', da?. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 32.
Borthen, Kaja; Knudsen, Cecilie Slinning. (2014) Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved trykklett visst :. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 32 (2).
Borthen, Kaja; Berthelin, Signe Rix; Thomassen, Gøril. (2012) Om det uuttalte - det relevansteoretiske implikaturbegrepet i møte med autentiske data. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 30 (1).
Borthen, Kaja. (2011) Response to Chen and Wu´s paper "Less well-behaved pronouns : Singular They in English and plural ta 'it/he/she' in Chinese. Journal of Pragmatics. volum 43 (1).
Borthen, Kaja. (2010) On how we interpret plural pronouns. Journal of Pragmatics. volum 42 (7).
Fretheim, Thorstein; Borthen, Kaja; Brøseth, Heidi. (2010) Introduction: Linguistic and cognitive aspects of reference. Journal of Pragmatics. volum 42 (7).
Borthen, Kaja; Haugereid, Petter. (2005) Representing Referential Properties of Nominals. Research on Language & Computation. volum 3 (2).
Hegarty, Michael; Gundel, Jeanette; Borthen, Kaja. (2003) "Cognitive Status, Information Structure, and Pronominal Reference to Clausally Introduced Entities". Journal of Logic, Language and Information. volum 3.
Hegarty, Michael; Gundel, Jeanette; Borthen, Kaja. (2002) "Information structure and the accessibility of clausally introduced referents". Theoretical Linguistics. volum 27.

Part of book/report

Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) The Norwegian tag "da" in comparison to English "then". Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries.
Hedberg, Nancy; Gundel, Jeanette K.; Borthen, Kaja. (2019) Different senses of 'referential'. The Oxford Handbook on Reference.
Rosén, Victoria; Borthen, Kaja. (2017) Norwegian bare singulars revisited. The very model of a modern linguist — in honor of Helge Dyvik.
Borthen, Kaja; Hemforth, Barbara; Behrens, Bergljot; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine; Mertins, Barbara. (2014) Referring expressions in speech reports. Psycholinguistic Approaches to Meaning and Understanding across Languages.
Borthen, Kaja; Thomassen, Gøril. (2014) Referential and functional aspects of the Norwegian first person plural 'vi'. Constructing collectivity. 'We' across languages and contexts.
Borthen, Kaja. (2007) The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs. The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface.

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