On the Integration of Non-Native Nouns in Faroese

by Laura Zieseler

Book cover: On the Integration of Non-Native Nouns in Faroese

Extent: 393 pages

Publisher: Universitätsverlag Winter

Subjects: Language & Linguistics

Series: Germanistische Bibliothek

Series volume number: 83

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2024)

ISBN: 9783825395612

6.5 x 9.65 inches

Price: $79.00

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This study analyses the integration of vowel-final non-native nouns in Faroese based on written language material ranging from computer-mediated communication to traditional printed media.


This study analyses the integration of vowel-final non-native nouns in Faroese based on written language material ranging from computer-mediated communication to traditional printed media. In order to gain a holistic insight into the underlying processes, both intralinguistic – orthography, phonology, morphology – as well as extralinguistic – language norms, metalinguistic discourse – factors are examined. Besides being the smallest and least researched modern-day Scandinavian language, Faroese also has one of Scandinavia’s youngest, most historicising orthographies, as well as a strong tradition of lexical purism. Its ideological climate is directly impacted by two polar opposites – progressive Danish on the one hand, and conservative Icelandic on the other. The observed integration strategies are described as the result of both native and non-native analogical forces that lead to ongoing contact-induced language change, including the refunctionalisation of the silent grapheme .

  • By (author) Laura Zieseler