Helge Sandoy

Sandoy, Helge 2019 Höskuldur Thráinsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen & Zakaris Svabo Hansen, eds. Syntactic Variation in Insular Scandinavian NOWELE 72:1, pp. 99–115 | Review

Sandoy, Helge, Ragnhild Lie Anderson and Maria-Rosa Doublet 2014 The Bergen dialect splits in two Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 239–264 | Article

An extensive sociolinguistic study in 1978 demonstrated a levelling of the high- and low-status varieties of the Bergen dialect, and the two centres of Fana and Bergen within this municipality showed the same linguistic tendencies. A parallel study of recordings from 2010 reveals that the… read more

Sandoy, Helge 2009 Quantifying linguistic changes: Experiments in Norwegian language history Historical Linguistics 2007: Selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Historical Linguistics, Montreal, 6–11 August 2007, Dufresne, Monique, Fernande Dupuis and Etleva Vocaj (eds.), pp. 285–294 | Article

There are reasons for assuming that different types of communities provide different social conditions for linguistic changes with consequences at least for the speed and for the type of grammatical changes. In order to explore this question, we need both a typology of communities and a model for… read more

Sandoy, Helge 2005 The Dative Case in Old Norse, Modern Norwegian and Modern Faroese NOWELE Volume 46/47 (June 2005): Papers on Scandinavian and Germanic Language and Culture, pp. 227–241 | Article

Sandoy, Helge 2004 Review of Barnes & Jahr (2001): Faroese Language Studies NOWELE Volume 44 (March 2004), pp. 121–131 | Review

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