Search
Search Results
-
The lexicography of Faroese
This chapter deals with lexicographical questions of Faroese, a North Germanic language, structurally similar to Icelandic, but lexically much...
-
Language Rights and the Law in the Faroe Islands
This chapter studies the ways in which the Faroe Islands, an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark, addresses the issue of language...
-
Language Rights and the Law in Scandinavia Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Greenland
This book examines the language policies in the constitutions, legal statutes, and regulations of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Faroe...
-
Introduction
This chapter presents the issues, themes, and goals of the book and provides an outline of the chapters in the book.
-
Summary, Conclusion, and Directions for Future Research
This chapter summarizes the findings of the book and offers directions for future research, for example, the need to closely scrutinize the view that...
-
Syntactic Change
In this chapter, we focus on language change at the level of the sentence. Chomsky’s paradigm of generative syntax contains a theory of change, in...
-
From Agnostic Heathen to Christian Convert: Trust in One’s Own Might and Main in the Viking Age
Four Icelandic narrative texts with historical and thematic ties to the conversion of Norway and the Faroe Islands to Christianity are examined from...
-
“Employers could use us, but they don’t”: voices from blue-collar workplaces in a northern periphery
This article analyses labour market experiences of migrants of non-Nordic origin who have settled in the Faroe Islands, a small North Atlantic...
-
The West Germanic Heritage of Yorkshire English
Many English words, including everyday words, have been labelled as Norse loanwords in scholarly work on English etymology. The number and semantic...
-
Definiteness marking in American Norwegian: a unique pattern among the Scandinavian languages
This paper examines definiteness marking in American Norwegian (AmNo), a heritage variety of Norwegian spoken in the US. The description adds another...
-
Gàidhlig, Gaeilge, Cymraeg and Føroyskt Mál: Minority Languages as Economic Assets?
In this chapter Mike Danson explores the challenges of economic development, sustainability, enterprise and resilient communities in peripheral areas...
-
On the Phylogenetic Status of East Germanic
By current consensus, the Germanic languages may be classified into three subgroups, called East, North, and West; the latter two, in turn, belong to...
-
The Tomsk Dialect Corpus: a comprehensively annotated database of a Siberian Russian dialect from material collected over the last 70 years
The paper offers the first full description of the Tomsk Dialect Corpus – an electronic resource based on recordings of the Russian dialect speech of...
-
Language Rights and the Law in Iceland
This chapter focuses on the ways in which Iceland addresses the language rights of the native Icelandic-speaking majority vis-à-vis Icelandic Sign...
-
Integrated non-restrictive relative clauses in Shupamem
This article investigates the structural and interpretative properties of relative clauses in Shupamem, an under-studied Grassfields Bantu language...
-
Language Contacts and Trust-Related Terminological Units
The history of humankind has faced numerous contacts between nations and states. A permanent or temporal interrelation influenced lifestyles,...
-
Person effects in agreement with Icelandic low nominatives: An experimental investigation
This paper investigates agreement—in particular person agreement—in two configurations in Icelandic where there are two potential controllers of...
-
In Defence of Böðvarr bjarki
For almost two centuries, Böðvarr bjarki has been a household name in Beowulf studies. The exploits of this monster-slaying champion of the Danish...
-
Language Rights and the Law in Denmark
This chapter examines Denmark’s language legislation, especially laws with provisions that protect the language rights of the Danish-speaking...
-
Phonological Change
In this chapter, we continue looking at sound change, but now we consider sounds as part of a phonological system. As phonemes are defined...