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...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/3195 2024-06-02T08:06:25+00:00 Faroese wh-nominals Vangsnes, Øystein A 2009 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/3195 eng eng University of Tromsø Nordlyd 36(2009) nr. 2 s. 231-253 FRIDAID 340997 1503-8599 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/3195 URN:NBN:no-uit_munin_2926 openAccess VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::General linguistics and phonetics: 011 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Allmenn språkvitenskap og fonetikk: 011 VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Nordic languages: 018 VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Nordiske språk: 018 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel 2009 ftunivtroemsoe 2024-05-07T08:42:34Z 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 University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Faroe Islands |
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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. |
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Faroese wh-nominals |
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