Artikkelartikkelen

“Artikkelartikkelen” is a coined term used in linguistic discussions of Norwegian grammar. It describes a concatenation of the word artikkel (article) and its definite form artikkelen (the article), and serves as a theoretical example of how Norwegian compounds and definiteness can interact. The word does not occur in ordinary speech but appears in scholarly texts as a teaching or thought experiment.

The form arises by combining artikkel with artikkelen to yield artikkelartikkelen. In Norwegian morphology, compounds typically involve the base form of the head noun, while determiner features such as definiteness can propagate in complex ways. A reading of artikkelartikkelen might be “the article of the article” or, in a more literal sense, “the article which is the article,” depending on context and intended interpretation.

In practice, the expression is mainly a pedagogical device. It highlights how definiteness, compounding, and word order interact in Norwegian and can produce strings that are technically grammatical but pragmatically awkward or ambiguous without explicit syntax or punctuation.

Related topics include Norwegian morphology, compound words, the definite article in Norwegian, and studies of linguistic nesting or reduplication as theoretical constructs.