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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Research at Føroymálsdeildin is in the subjects: Faroese language, Faroese literature, Folkloristics and Creative writing/Music.
The Language-linguistic-program: Presently focuses on modern Faroese syntax, morphology, phonology, sociolinguistics (included dialectology), language variation and change and language contact/bilingualism; additionally, there is research of proper names in the history of Faroese.
The Literature-program (including Folkloristics and the Art-program): The literary research comprises Faroese literary history, studies of post-colonialism, travel-writings, gender, ecocritics and studies in literary criticism. Folkloristics-research includes contemporary transmission of Faroese Ballad tradition/chain dance and the Faroese efforts to safeguard traditions as “Intangible Cultural Heritage”. In the Art-program focus is mainly on the interplay between words and art in general.
Researchers produced 67 outputs in 2020, and they participate in different networks and research-projects and conferences.
Projects: Researchers that are affiliated with the Language/linguistic program are responsible for updating the following four dictionaries: Faroese Dictionary (Føroysk orðabók), Faroese-Danish Dictionary (Føroysk-donsk orðabók), Danish-Faroese Dictionary (Donsk-føroysk orðabók) and Dictionary of Idioms (Steinur brestur fyri mannatungu). Presently there is a project on L1 Acquisition that includes recordings of four children during a time-period of three years (from 9 months to 3 years). A project on Multilingualism on the Faroe Islands starts in January 2022, and the project Faroese Phonetics and Phonology has been up and running from January 2020 to June 2024. In addition to this, there is the project Faroese Language History (Føroysk málsøga). There is an also an Inter-Nordic/American projects on Ditransitives in Insluar Scandinavian.
Researchers affiliated with the literature program work on Faroese Literature History (Føroysk bókmentasøga), which is supposed to finish soon. Finished projects are Heima er ikki til (Home does not exist). Research on the oral transmitted tradition contain the PhD-project : “Hand in hand” - Transmitting Faroese Ballad Tradition in modern society”, that will finish in 2022.
Network: Researchers participate in different networks, like the work on a Spell-Checker, the development of an Automatic Speech Recognition and for example Ballads Across Borders.
PhD-projects. Currently there are two PhD-projects at Føroyamálsdeildin. One is “Hand in hand” - Transmitting Faroese Ballad Tradition in modern society and the other is on Devoicing of Sonorants and Aspiration (starts in January 2022).
Collections: The following four collections are at FMD: Spoken Data Collection (Bandasavnið); Collection of Placenames (Staðarnavnasavnið); Lexicographic Word-Collection (Seðlasavnið), and Collection of Manuscripts (Handritasavnið). More information is found here: https://www.setur.fo/fo/setrid/almennar-taenastur-og-grunnar/sovn/.
Together with the Faculty of Education, staff at the Faculty have the course: Faroese as a Second Language.
Summer-courses are held at FMD, one for international students of linguistic, Germanic or Nordic, and one for Nordic students of the Scandinavian languages.
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Iben Nyholm Debess
- Føroyamálsdeildin - Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature - PhD Fellow and Coordinator
Person: Academic
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SAAF: Speech Acquisition and Assessment in Faroese
Rasmussen, S. M. (PI), Clausen, M. C. (PI), Másdóttir , Þ. (PI), Crowe, K. (PI) & Volhardt , M. D. S. (PI)
1/09/24 → 31/08/26
Project: Research
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Faroese Megaword Corpus and Infrastructure for Research and Language Technology
Debess, I. N. (PI), Simonsen, A. (PI), Sigurðsson, E. F. (PI) & Steingrímsson, S. (PI)
1/08/23 → 1/08/25
Project: Research
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A sociophonetic study on preaspiration and sonorant devoicing in Faroese - an understudied subject in an understudied language.
Lamhauge, S. S. (PI)
1/01/22 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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...simpulthen barastani so ótrúúliiiiga fitt... Augmentativu eftirfestini -ni, -na og -sta
Petersen, H. P., 2024, In: Fróðskaparrit - Faroese Scientific Journal. 70, p. 5-18 14 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Afradikalisering: Romanen Barbara og erindringen om Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen
Hansen, B. D., 2024, (Submitted) Barbara i høj sø - en antologi (preliminary title). Moberg, B. R. & Skyum-Nielsen, E. (eds.). København: Multivers, 14 p.Translated title of the contribution :Deradicalisation : The influence of Christian Matras and William Heinesen on the interpretation of the novel Barbara (1939) by Jørgen-Frantz Jacobsen. Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Aligning Efforts: Artificial Intelligence in the North Atlantic Region
Debess, I. N., 2024, 10 p. NORA.Research output: Other contribution
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Prizes
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Føroysk purisma - føroysk orð ella orð í føroyskum?
Jacobsen, J. Í. L. (Recipient), 7 Oct 2021
Prize: Honorary award
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Uddannelses- og Forskningsministeriets Specialepris om rigsfællesskabet
Andreasen, Rakul Skaale (Recipient), 2020
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Activities
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Med både sejl og motor: nye muligheder og udfordringer for færøsk sprogteknologi
Debess, I. N. (Speaker)
6 Nov 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Language technologies and AI in the Nordic Countries
Debess, I. N. (Participant)
5 Nov 2024 → 6 Nov 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participating in a conference, workshop, ...
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University of Helsinki
Marnersdóttir, M. (Visiting researcher)
4 Nov 2024Activity: Visiting an external institution › Visiting an external academic institution
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Student theses
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Eg havi tað á tunguni: Ein kvalitativ kanning av føroyska málinum hjá børnum við føroyskum pápa og filipinskari ella tailendskari mammu
Kannuberg, H. (Author), Jacobsen, J. Í. L. (Supervisor), 25 Oct 2019Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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En undersøgelse af udtalen i færødansk og gøtudansk i to generationer
Lamhauge, S. S. (Author), Copenhagen, U. (Supervisor) & Pharao, N. (Supervisor), 1 Jul 2016Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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Gentænkningen af en længselsfuld drøm om øen: En økokritisk analyse af den litterære bearbejdning af turismens fremstilling af Færøerne
Lamhauge-Mortensen, H. (Author), Soewarta, A. D. (Supervisor), 20 Jun 2021Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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