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Organization 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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Profiles
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Boganmeldelse om Børns Sprogtilegnelse
Rasmussen, S. M., 7 Feb 2023, Lingoblog.Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Book/Film/Article review
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Demens, mutise og modernisme
Marnersdóttir, M., 2 Aug 2023. 1 p.Translated title of the contribution :Dementia, mutism and modernism Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › peer-review
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Ditransitives in Faroese: The distribution of IO/DO and PP
Ussery, C. & Petersen, H. P., 2023, (In preparation) Ditransitives in Germanic Languages: Synchronic and diachronic aspects. Zehntner, E., Röthlisberger, M. & Colleman, T. (eds.). 1 ed. John Benjamins Publishing Company, Vol. 7. p. 299-324 26 p. (Studies in Germanic Linguistics; vol. 7).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
Prizes
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Føroysk purisma - føroysk orð ella orð í føroyskum?
Jacobsen, Jógvan í Lon (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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Aspects of the Structure of Faroese
Hjalmar P. Petersen (Speaker)
23 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Aspects of the Structure of Faroese
Hjalmar P. Petersen (Speaker)
23 May 2023Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk
Press/Media
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Føroysk bókmentasøga 2 útkomin
Malan Marnersdóttir & Turið Sigurðardóttir
14/03/23
1 Media contribution
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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
Author: Kannuberg, H., 25 Oct 2019Supervisor: Jacobsen, J. Í. L. (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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En undersøgelse af udtalen i færødansk og gøtudansk i to generationer
Author: Lamhauge, S. S., 1 Jul 2016Supervisor: Copenhagen, U. (External person) (Supervisor) & Pharao, N. (External person) (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis
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Prose Contexts of Eddic Poetry: Primarily in the fornaldarsögur
Author: Leslie-Jacobsen, H. F., 2013Supervisor: Mundal, E. (External person) (Supervisor)
Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
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