Tórshavn

Group leader: Thórhallur Eythórsson, researcher [Contact]

University of Iceland

Local leader: Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen, assistant professor

Group members:
Hjalmar P. Petersen, researcher
Zakaris S. Hansen, lexicon editor
Kristin M. Magnussen, assistant professor
Victoria Absalonsen, MA-student
Rakul Napoleonsdóttir, MA-student
Petra Eliassen, MA-student
Per Jacobsen, MA-student

The Faroe Islands group is starting up as an independent group based at the University of the Faroe Islands, Tórshavn. The group covers sociolinguistics, dialectology, lexical variation, syntax/morphology and phonology. Eythorsson has done research Icelandic and Faroese syntax and directed and participated in a number of research project on syntactic variation in Icelandic and the Faroe Islands. Jacobsen recently defended a PhD dissertation on sociolinguistic aspects of loanwords and neologisms in Faroese. Petersen, University of Hamburg, has wide-reaching interest in Faroese linguistics, and is the author of a new Faroese language textbook. Petersen is a specialist on grammatical gender in Faroese and has recently defended a PhD dissertation on this topic. Hansens interests include lexical variation and works with syntactic variation in Faroese in collaboration with researchers in Edinburgh and Iceland. Magnussen has worked on the sociolinguistic aspects of place name distribution in the Faroe Islands. There are also several promising MA-students at the University of the Faroe Islands, i.e. Victoria Absalonsen, Rakul Napoleonsdóttir, Petra Eliassen and Per Jacobsen, that have participated actively in recent surveys on syntactic variation in Faroese.