Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/53021
Title: On languages on islands
Contributor(s): Nash, Joshua  (author)orcid ; Bakker, Peter (author); Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis (author); Daval-Markussen, Aymeric (author); Haberland, Hartmut (author); Kedwards, Dale (author); Ladhams, John (author); Levisen, Carsten (author); Markússon, Jón Símon (author); Robbe, Joost (author); Willemsen, Jeroen (author)
Publication Date: 2020
Early Online Version: 2020-03-27
DOI: 10.1080/03740463.2020.1736747
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/53021
Abstract: 

Islands as specific research sites in their own right have been given little direct attention by linguists. The physical segregation, distinctness, and isolation of islands from mainland and continental environments may provide scholars of language with distinct and robust sets of singular and combined case studies for examining the role of islandness in any appreciation of language. Whether distinct and particular sociolinguistic and typological phenomena can be attributable to islands and their islandness and vice versa remains unexplored. This position article considers the possibility of there being anything particular and peculiar about languages spoken on islands as compared to languages spoken on mainlands and continents. It arose out of a workshop titled 'Exploring island languages' held at Aarhus University, Denmark on 30 April 2018. The main question posed was: Is there anything special socially, linguistically, grammatically, and typologically about the languages of islands? If so, is it possible to talk about such a thing as an island language?

Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 52(1), p. 81-116
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1949-0763
0374-0463
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 451310 Pacific Peoples linguistics and languages
451304 Pacific Peoples cultural history
470411 Sociolinguistics
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 280116 Expanding knowledge in language, communication and culture
130201 Communication across languages and culture
139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences

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