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
Academic article
Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) The Norwegian tag "da" in comparison to English "then". John Benjamins Publishing Company
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
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
Academic article

2019

Berthelin, Signe Rix; Borthen, Kaja. (2019) The semantics and pragmatics of Norwegian sentence-internal jo. Nordic Journal of Linguistics
Academic article
Hedberg, Nancy; Gundel, Jeanette K.; Borthen, Kaja. (2019) Different senses of 'referential'. Oxford University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2018

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

2017

Rosén, Victoria; Borthen, Kaja. (2017) Norwegian bare singulars revisited.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2014

Borthen, Kaja; Knudsen, Cecilie Slinning. (2014) Semantiske og pragmatiske aspekter ved trykklett visst :. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
Academic article
Borthen, Kaja. (2014) Hva betyr 'da', da?. NLT - Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift
Academic article
Borthen, Kaja; Hemforth, Barbara; Behrens, Bergljot; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine ; Mertins, Barbara. (2014) Referring expressions in speech reports. Springer Publishing Company
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Borthen, Kaja; Thomassen, Gøril. (2014) Referential and functional aspects of the Norwegian first person plural 'vi'. John Benjamins Publishing Company
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2007

Borthen, Kaja. (2007) The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs. John Benjamins Publishing Company
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2005

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

2002

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

Journal publications

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

Part of book/report

Borthen, Kaja; Karagjosova, Elena. (2021) The Norwegian tag "da" in comparison to English "then". John Benjamins Publishing Company
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Hedberg, Nancy; Gundel, Jeanette K.; Borthen, Kaja. (2019) Different senses of 'referential'. Oxford University Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Rosén, Victoria; Borthen, Kaja. (2017) Norwegian bare singulars revisited.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Borthen, Kaja; Hemforth, Barbara; Behrens, Bergljot; Fabricius-Hansen, Cathrine ; Mertins, Barbara. (2014) Referring expressions in speech reports. Springer Publishing Company
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Borthen, Kaja; Thomassen, Gøril. (2014) Referential and functional aspects of the Norwegian first person plural 'vi'. John Benjamins Publishing Company
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Borthen, Kaja. (2007) The correspondence between cognitive status and the form of kind-referring NPs. John Benjamins Publishing Company
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

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