Basics
Title: Faroese
Subtitle: An Overview and Reference Grammar
Authors: Höskuldur Thráinsson, Hjalmar P. Petersen, Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, Zakaris Svabo Hansen
Publisher: Fróðskapur & Málvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 508
ISBN: 978-99918-65-40-9
Nordic Names shortcut: FAR
Index of Contents
- Preface
- Orthography and pronunciation
- Introduction
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Overview of phonetic transcriptions of Faroese
- Readings on the orthography and phonetics of Faroese
- Phonetics and phonology
- Introduction
- Stress
- Vowels
- Consonants
- Readings on the phonetics and phonology of Faroese
- Inflectional morphology, grammatical categories and word classes
- Introduction
- Grammatical categories, inflections and auxiliary constructions
- Nouns
- Articles
- Adjectives
- Numerals
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Prepositions
- Adverbs
- Conjunctions
- Readings on the inflectional morphology of Faroese
- Derivational morphology
- Introduction
- Some derivational suffixes
- Prefixation
- On the borderline between derivation and compounding
- Readings on the derivational morphology of Faroese
- Syntax
- Introduction
- Inflectional morphology and agreement
- Basic word order patterns
- Case marking patterns and the passive
- The so-called middle
- Expletive constructions
- Word order variations
- Complement types, complementizers and adjunct clauses
- Pronouns and reflexives
- Readings on the syntax of Faroese
- Dialects and synchronic variation
- The earliest comments on dialectal differences in the Faroes
- Phonetic and phonological differences today
- Morphological differences
- Syntactic differences
- Conclusion and a dialect map
- Readings on Faroese dialects
- History and diachronic variation
- Introduction
- Medieval sources
- Faroese orthography and Faroese as an official language
- Historical phonology
- Historical morphology
- Syntactic changes
- Foreign influences and Faroese language policy
- Abbreviations and text referred to in this chapter
- Readings on the history of Faroese, Faroese orthography and language policy
- References
- New references
- Faroese dictionaries
- New Faroese dictionaries
- Language index
- Subject index