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Faroe Danish

An unknown variety
  • Karoline Kühl
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Language Variation - European Perspectives V
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Abstract

This chapter provides a descriptive profile of Faroe Danish, the variety of Danish spoken and written on the Faroe Islands. Faroe Danish is not only a variety unknown to most linguists but also unknown to the speakers of Faroe Danish themselves. This paper provides a communicative profile and a structural outline of Faroe Danish as it exists today.

Abstract

This chapter provides a descriptive profile of Faroe Danish, the variety of Danish spoken and written on the Faroe Islands. Faroe Danish is not only a variety unknown to most linguists but also unknown to the speakers of Faroe Danish themselves. This paper provides a communicative profile and a structural outline of Faroe Danish as it exists today.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. A corpus-driven analysis of Romani in contact with Turkish and Greek 1
  5. How many ands in Picard? 17
  6. Language variation in Slovene 31
  7. Code-switching in SMS communication 43
  8. The interplay between dialect and standard 55
  9. Word order variation and foregrounding of complement clauses 69
  10. Voicing the ‘other’ 87
  11. Tourists’ attitudes towards linguistic variation in Scotland 99
  12. The pronunciation of -ig in three varieties of Austria 111
  13. A century of change in prevocalic (r) in Carlisle English 129
  14. Variation in wh-questions in Icelandic Sign Language 145
  15. Faroe Danish 157
  16. A new view of Basque through eighteenth-century correspondence 169
  17. Standard-dialect variation and its functionalization 183
  18. Production and perception of (ing) in Manchester English 197
  19. Pro-dialect practices and linguistic commodification in rural Valdres, Norway 211
  20. A real-time study of plosives in Glaswegian using an automatic measurement algorithm 225
  21. Index 239
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.17.12kuh

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. A corpus-driven analysis of Romani in contact with Turkish and Greek 1
  5. How many ands in Picard? 17
  6. Language variation in Slovene 31
  7. Code-switching in SMS communication 43
  8. The interplay between dialect and standard 55
  9. Word order variation and foregrounding of complement clauses 69
  10. Voicing the ‘other’ 87
  11. Tourists’ attitudes towards linguistic variation in Scotland 99
  12. The pronunciation of -ig in three varieties of Austria 111
  13. A century of change in prevocalic (r) in Carlisle English 129
  14. Variation in wh-questions in Icelandic Sign Language 145
  15. Faroe Danish 157
  16. A new view of Basque through eighteenth-century correspondence 169
  17. Standard-dialect variation and its functionalization 183
  18. Production and perception of (ing) in Manchester English 197
  19. Pro-dialect practices and linguistic commodification in rural Valdres, Norway 211
  20. A real-time study of plosives in Glaswegian using an automatic measurement algorithm 225
  21. Index 239
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