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… read more
In contrast to the amount of research that has been performed on linguistic
convergence in language contact, this paper focuses on the possibility of linguistic
systems remaining stable, or even diverging, in language contact settings. It
carves out multiple relevant mechanisms and factors that… read more
This contribution deals with the possibilities of distinguishing features of an established contact variety from singly occurring, transient elements using a corpus-based approach. It emphasizes the potential that lies in including different language registers (informal spoken language and formal… read more
This paper emphasizes language contact situations in general as an origin of hybrid features of writtenness. Furthermore it stresses the necessity of taking into account the medial-conceptional differences between languages of distance (prototypically written) and languages of proximity… read more
The paper deals with Danish-Faroese and Danish-German language contact, in particular Faro-Danish and Danish-German verb phrases that are constructed under heavy influence of Faroese and German, respectively. The theoretical framework is the Abstract Level Model (2002) as well as further… read more