* As promised, I reserve special thank yous to my dear friends and collegues who helped me move last week; Björn and Gillian, Kristine and Peter, Christine and Lars, Marleen, Rosmin, Øystein (det er tanken som teller) and Martin (for at innspurten ble god, for raemfliring i kaoset og kaos i raemfliringa). For having more important things to do that day, Kaori and Helene! Contents LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 2 THEORETICAL, EMPIRICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS 2.1 THEORY: SIGNIFIÉ/SIGNIFIANT 2.1.1 ARBITRARINESS AND CONVENTIONS
Following Denis Bouchard's neo-Saussurean Sign Theory of Language, with a focus on the notion of Grammar Semantics, this article sketches a proposal for a unified understanding of the most multifunctional among Norwegian verbs, namely få ‘get’. Based on Bouchard's analysis of French être ‘be’ and avoir ‘have’ and corresponding signs in other languages, I propose that få is the dynamic version of ha ‘have’, which is a bivalent transitive copula. This abstract semantic value is shown to form the basis for the many contextual interpretations få receives, in its use both as a main verb and as an auxiliary. To my knowledge, a monosemic, unified understanding of få that covers all its uses and interpretations has not yet been proposed, especially not one that highlights its relationships with være ‘be’, ha ‘have’ and bli ‘be, become, get’. The study also includes a contrastive analysis of få and the English verb get.
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