The aim of this article is to present examples of a number of types of changes in Faroese that have come about under the influence of Danish. The majority of the residents of the Faroe Islands are bilingual in Faroese (L1) and Danish (L2). This has resulted in many loanwords, convergence and replication. The main topic of this article is convergence and replication, and we subscribe to a definition of convergence that stresses it as a one-way phenomenon, which involves the abstract level structure of a source language, and the surface-level patterns coming from the recipient language.
In this article, a revised classification of Faroese dialects is presented. Unlike previous classifications, this one takes into account the development and synchronic distribution of unstressed -i’s and -u’s, which has given rise to changes in the inflectional system. In addition to this, it looks both at stressed vowels and aspirated vs. non-aspirated -p, -t, -k after long vowels. As a result of this evidence, necessary changes to the generally accepted classification system are proposed, with four general dialect areas including transition areas.
ÚrtakGreinin er um, í hvønn mun fyrisetingin fyri møguliga kann stýra hvønnfalli, har hon fyrr stýrdi hvørjumfalli, ella um fólk kunnu hava variatión í báðum føllum. Ein spurnablaðskanning vísir, at munur er á málnýtsluni hjá teimum eldru og teimum yngru málbrúkarunum. Háttalagið, sum nýtt er, er ein kvantitativ korrelatiónsgreining.
AbstractThe question we adress in this article is to what extent the preposition fyri 'for' might govern the accusative where it used to govern the dative. In order to find out if this is so, young and old speakers of Faroese have answered a grammaticality judgment test, and it is the results of this test that we present the reader for here.
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