Finalpartiklar i norske talemål: Ei undersøking av variasjon knytt til geografi, alder og kjønn

This article reports on a study of geographical and demographical aspects of 46 final particles in Norwegian dialects, among them gitt (< lit. ‘boy’), sant (< lit. ‘true’) and kan du skjonne (< lit. ‘can you realize’). In the first part of the study, a questionnaire was used as the method. The results from this study show to what extent informants from different regions in Norway report on use of the given final particles. The second part of the study is an investigation of the use of the 46 final particles in the corpora Nordisk dialektkorpus and LIA norsk. In sum, the study shows that i) many of the 46 final particles are delimited geographically; ii) some of the expressions are used to greater extent by the older informants than by the younger ones, and the other way around; iii) a few expressions have a more frequent use among men than among women, and the other way around, and iv) overall, younger people seem to place expressions in the final (tag) position more often than do older people when more than one syntactic position is possible. In addition, the study contributes insights into the two methods that were used.