Pragmaticalised determiners in American Norwegian

This paper discusses the determiners slik and sånn ‘such (a), like this/that’ in American Norwegian (AmNo), extent to which pragmaticalised uses of these determiners, carrying information about speaker’s attitudes speaker-hearer relations, can be found. It is shown that are used, but their distribution differs some respects from homeland variety; notably, AmNo, lexical variant more common than sånn. also although robustly attested (at least one subtype, described as a hedging marker), they overall less frequent homeland. However, conditions on use markers generally similar both varieties.