Variation in Faroese and the development of a spoken standard: In search of corpus evidence

Although Faroese exhibits extensive linguistic variation and rapid social change, the language is near-uncharted territory in variationist sociolinguistics. This article discusses some recent social changes in Faroese society in connection with language change, focusing in particular on the developm...

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Published in:Nordic journal of linguistics 2014-05, Vol.37 (1), p.87-105
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Dialects
German language
Language acquisition
Language change
Linguistics
Morphology
North Germanic languages
Phonology
Respondents
Social change
Sociolinguistics
Variationist linguistics
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