Faroese wh-nominals
This paper presents a survey of Faroese wh-nominals, in particular (i) the hvør N construction, (ii) the hvat fyri (ein) N construction, and (iii) the hvat slag av N.dat construction. The first construction involves a wh-item which is used both pronominally, corresponding to English who and what, an...
Published in: | Nordlyd |
---|---|
Main Author: | |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English Norwegian |
Published: |
Septentrio Academic Publishing
2009
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7557/12.234 https://doaj.org/article/6f80cff3d12848fc915a3ea50633c65c |
id |
ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6f80cff3d12848fc915a3ea50633c65c |
---|---|
record_format |
openpolar |
spelling |
ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:6f80cff3d12848fc915a3ea50633c65c 2023-05-15T16:10:51+02:00 Faroese wh-nominals Øystein Alexander Vangsnes 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.7557/12.234 https://doaj.org/article/6f80cff3d12848fc915a3ea50633c65c EN NO eng nor Septentrio Academic Publishing https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/234 https://doaj.org/toc/1503-8599 doi:10.7557/12.234 1503-8599 https://doaj.org/article/6f80cff3d12848fc915a3ea50633c65c Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, Vol 36, Iss 2 (2009) Faroese wh-nominals what for kind vs. token queries comparative North Germanic case inertness Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 article 2009 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.7557/12.234 2022-12-31T04:59:53Z This paper presents a survey of Faroese wh-nominals, in particular (i) the hvør N construction, (ii) the hvat fyri (ein) N construction, and (iii) the hvat slag av N.dat construction. The first construction involves a wh-item which is used both pronominally, corresponding to English who and what, and adnominally, corresponding to English which, what (N), and what kind of. The second construction is the Faroese version of the was für/what for construction, including versions with and without an indefinite article and with and without both the preposition (fyri) and the indefinite article (i.e. a “bare what” construction). The last construction involves an overt kind noun which must be followed by the preposition av ‘of’ which in turn assigns dative case to the main/head noun. The survey is based on data collected during the NORMS fieldwork in the Faroe Islands in August 2008, focusing on a number of morphosyntactic issues as well as the semantic distinction between kind and token interpretation. The various findings on Faroese are compared to data on other varieties of Germanic, in particular the North Germanic ones. Article in Journal/Newspaper Faroe Islands Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Faroe Islands Nordlyd 36 2 pp |
institution |
Open Polar |
collection |
Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles |
op_collection_id |
ftdoajarticles |
language |
English Norwegian |
topic |
Faroese wh-nominals what for kind vs. token queries comparative North Germanic case inertness Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 |
spellingShingle |
Faroese wh-nominals what for kind vs. token queries comparative North Germanic case inertness Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 Øystein Alexander Vangsnes Faroese wh-nominals |
topic_facet |
Faroese wh-nominals what for kind vs. token queries comparative North Germanic case inertness Language. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammar P101-410 |
description |
This paper presents a survey of Faroese wh-nominals, in particular (i) the hvør N construction, (ii) the hvat fyri (ein) N construction, and (iii) the hvat slag av N.dat construction. The first construction involves a wh-item which is used both pronominally, corresponding to English who and what, and adnominally, corresponding to English which, what (N), and what kind of. The second construction is the Faroese version of the was für/what for construction, including versions with and without an indefinite article and with and without both the preposition (fyri) and the indefinite article (i.e. a “bare what” construction). The last construction involves an overt kind noun which must be followed by the preposition av ‘of’ which in turn assigns dative case to the main/head noun. The survey is based on data collected during the NORMS fieldwork in the Faroe Islands in August 2008, focusing on a number of morphosyntactic issues as well as the semantic distinction between kind and token interpretation. The various findings on Faroese are compared to data on other varieties of Germanic, in particular the North Germanic ones. |
format |
Article in Journal/Newspaper |
author |
Øystein Alexander Vangsnes |
author_facet |
Øystein Alexander Vangsnes |
author_sort |
Øystein Alexander Vangsnes |
title |
Faroese wh-nominals |
title_short |
Faroese wh-nominals |
title_full |
Faroese wh-nominals |
title_fullStr |
Faroese wh-nominals |
title_full_unstemmed |
Faroese wh-nominals |
title_sort |
faroese wh-nominals |
publisher |
Septentrio Academic Publishing |
publishDate |
2009 |
url |
https://doi.org/10.7557/12.234 https://doaj.org/article/6f80cff3d12848fc915a3ea50633c65c |
geographic |
Faroe Islands |
geographic_facet |
Faroe Islands |
genre |
Faroe Islands |
genre_facet |
Faroe Islands |
op_source |
Nordlyd: Tromsø University Working Papers on Language & Linguistics, Vol 36, Iss 2 (2009) |
op_relation |
https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlyd/article/view/234 https://doaj.org/toc/1503-8599 doi:10.7557/12.234 1503-8599 https://doaj.org/article/6f80cff3d12848fc915a3ea50633c65c |
op_doi |
https://doi.org/10.7557/12.234 |
container_title |
Nordlyd |
container_volume |
36 |
container_issue |
2 |
container_start_page |
pp |
_version_ |
1765995987864649728 |