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Kaja Borthen

Kaja Borthen

Professor
Department of Language and Literature

kaja.borthen@ntnu.no
+4773598314 Bygg 3, 3413, Dragvoll, Edvard Bulls veg 1
About Publications Teaching

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

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2021

  • Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) Pronominal right-dislocation in Norwegian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. volum 6 (1).
    Academic article
  • Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) The Norwegian tag "da" in comparison to English "then". Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries.
    Academic chapter/article
  • 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).
    Academic article

2019

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

2018

  • Borthen, Kaja. (2018) Pronominal høyredislokering i norsk, det er et interessant fenomen, det. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 36 (2).
    Academic article
  • Borthen, Kaja. (2018) Store spørsmål om små ord. Innledning til temanummer om pragmatiske partikler i norsk. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 36 (2).
    Academic article
  • 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).
    Academic article

2017

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

2014

  • Borthen, Kaja. (2014) Hva betyr 'da', da?. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 32.
    Academic article
  • 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.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Borthen, Kaja; Knudsen, Cecilie Slinning. (2014) Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved trykklett visst :. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 32 (2).
    Academic article
  • Borthen, Kaja; Thomassen, Gøril. (2014) Referential and functional aspects of the Norwegian first person plural 'vi'. Constructing collectivity. 'We' across languages and contexts.
    Academic chapter/article

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).
    Academic article

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).
    Academic article

2010

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

2007

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

2005

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

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.
    Academic article

2002

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

Scientific articles

  • Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) Pronominal right-dislocation in Norwegian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics. volum 6 (1).
    Academic article
  • 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).
    Academic article
  • Berthelin, Signe Rix; Borthen, Kaja. (2019) The semantics and pragmatics of Norwegian sentence-internal jo. Nordic Journal of Linguistics. volum 42 (1).
    Academic article
  • Borthen, Kaja. (2018) Pronominal høyredislokering i norsk, det er et interessant fenomen, det. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 36 (2).
    Academic article
  • Borthen, Kaja. (2018) Store spørsmål om små ord. Innledning til temanummer om pragmatiske partikler i norsk. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 36 (2).
    Academic article
  • 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).
    Academic article
  • Borthen, Kaja. (2014) Hva betyr 'da', da?. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 32.
    Academic article
  • Borthen, Kaja; Knudsen, Cecilie Slinning. (2014) Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved trykklett visst :. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift. volum 32 (2).
    Academic article
  • 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).
    Academic article
  • 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).
    Academic article
  • Borthen, Kaja. (2010) On how we interpret plural pronouns. Journal of Pragmatics. volum 42 (7).
    Academic article
  • Fretheim, Thorstein; Borthen, Kaja; Brøseth, Heidi. (2010) Introduction: Linguistic and cognitive aspects of reference. Journal of Pragmatics. volum 42 (7).
    Academic article
  • Borthen, Kaja; Haugereid, Petter. (2005) Representing Referential Properties of Nominals. Research on Language & Computation. volum 3 (2).
    Academic article
  • 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.
    Academic article
  • Hegarty, Michael; Gundel, Jeanette; Borthen, Kaja. (2002) "Information structure and the accessibility of clausally introduced referents". Theoretical Linguistics. volum 27.
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) The Norwegian tag "da" in comparison to English "then". Pragmatic Markers and Peripheries.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Hedberg, Nancy; Gundel, Jeanette K.; Borthen, Kaja. (2019) Different senses of 'referential'. The Oxford Handbook on Reference.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Rosén, Victoria; Borthen, Kaja. (2017) Norwegian bare singulars revisited. The very model of a modern linguist — in honor of Helge Dyvik.
    Academic chapter/article
  • 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.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Borthen, Kaja; Thomassen, Gøril. (2014) Referential and functional aspects of the Norwegian first person plural 'vi'. Constructing collectivity. 'We' across languages and contexts.
    Academic chapter/article
  • Borthen, Kaja. (2007) The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs. The Grammar-Pragmatics Interface.
    Academic chapter/article

Teaching

Courses

  • NORD2318 - Study of Meaning - Semantics and Pragmatics
  • SPRÅK8891 - Linguistic research questions, theories and methods
  • SPRÅK8861 - Methods of Linguistics
  • SPRÅK8873 - Linguistic Theory
  • SPRÅK8867 - Theories and Methods in Linguistics
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