TY - JOUR
T1 - On languages on islands
AU - Nash, Joshua
AU - Bakker, Peter
AU - Bøegh, Kristoffer Friis
AU - Daval-Markussen, Aymeric
AU - Haberland, Hartmut
AU - Kedwards, Dale
AU - Ladhams, John
AU - Levisen, Carsten
AU - Markússon, Jón Símon
AU - Robbe, Joost Roger
AU - Willemsen, Jeroen
N1 - Important note from the Publisher regarding the attached version of the article: “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Acta Linguistica Hafniensia on 27 Mar 2020, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/03740463.2020.1736747.”
PY - 2020/1/2
Y1 - 2020/1/2
N2 - 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?
AB - 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?
KW - Creoles
KW - frames of spatial reference
KW - island languages
KW - linguistic isolates
KW - sociolinguistics
U2 - 10.1080/03740463.2020.1736747
DO - 10.1080/03740463.2020.1736747
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0374-0463
VL - 52
SP - 81
EP - 116
JO - Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics
JF - Acta Linguistica Hafniensia: International Journal of Linguistics
IS - 1
T2 - Exploring Island Languages
Y2 - 30 April 2018
ER -