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| − | [[Image:N879965304 5974190 3456233.jpg |thumb|left|300px]]My name is Signe Rix Berthelin. I study Linguistics, Social Anthropology and Kiswahili on the final year of my BA at NTNU.
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| − | The last term I spent at SOAS where I studied the Structure of Bantu Languages, General Linguistics and how writing came about in Mesopotamia.
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| − | My main interests are language documentation and description, and I hope to contribute to the documentation of a Bantu language or a Native North American language in the future. I am especially interested in how to describe meaning, and the Bantu noun class system really fascinates me.
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| − | I am native speaker of Danish, and in my sparetime I work as a translator from English and Norwegian into Danish. I find it funny to see semilaritites and differences between Norwegian and Danish, when it comes to expressions and the connotations of the words. I have put Danish data into Typecraft and did my best to annotate properly. I will put out more Danish data continually. Please do no hesitate if you have any questions about the data, or if you would like me to add constructions.
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| − | This term I am working on the semantics of the Runyankore noun class system. I have the pleasure of working with native consultants for the very first time. The database and results will appear on TypeCraft in the future.
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| − | For my bachelor essay in Social Anthropology, I write about reasons for language death and what impact language shift may have on the ethnic identity of the language users.
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