Variation in dative in Faroese

Hjalmar Páll Petersen

doi:doi 10.1075/sigl.1.05pet

Variation in dative in Faroese

Hjalmar Páll Petersen

Føroyamálsdeildin - Faculty of Faroese Language and Literature

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Abstract

The aim of this article is to investigate variation in object case marking in
Faroese and the ongoing change from dative objects to accusative objects in
Modern Faroese. In this investigation I try to determine what influences this
change: Is it influenced by the morphological form of the noun phrase, the semantics of the verb, language contact with Danish or an interaction between
these three factors? Furthermore it is necessary to see if synonymous Nom/
Acc native verbs influence Nom/Dat verbs. To seek answers to these questions I
conducted three different grammaticality judgment tests among young people,
17–20 years of age, in the Faroe Islands, and I have compared these data with the
results of a search in a text database (teldni.fo/tekstasavn).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Syntactic variation in Insular Scandinavian
Editors	Høskuldur Thráinsson, Caroline Heycock, Hjalmar P. Petersen, Zakaris S. Hansen
Place of Publication	Amsterdam/Philadelphia
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pages	113-141
Number of pages	28
Volume	1
Edition	1
ISBN (Print)	9789027208569
DOIs	https://doi.org/doi 10.1075/sigl.1.05pet
Publication status	Published - 2017

Publication series

Name	Studies in Germanic Linguistics
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Number	1
Volume	1

Keywords

language change
case loss
language contact
verb semantics
proto-agent
proto-patient
prototypical dative verbs
lexical diffusion
Faroese

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Variation in dative in Faroese. / Petersen, Hjalmar Páll.
Syntactic variation in Insular Scandinavian. ed. / Høskuldur Thráinsson; Caroline Heycock; Hjalmar P. Petersen; Zakaris S. Hansen. Vol. 1 1. ed. Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. p. 113-141 (Studies in Germanic Linguistics ; Vol. 1, No. 1).

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