On languages on islands

Q2 Arts and Humanities Acta Linguistica Hafniensia Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/03740463.2020.1736747

J. Nash, P. Bakker, Kristoffer Friis Bøegh, Aymeric Daval-Markussen, H. Haberland, Dale Kedwards, John Ladhams, Carsten Levisen, Jón Símon Markússon, Joost Robbe, J. Willemsen

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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?

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关于岛屿上的语言

岛屿作为其自身权利的特定研究地点很少受到语言学家的直接关注。岛屿与大陆和大陆环境的物理隔离、独特性和孤立性可能为语言学者提供独特而有力的单一和综合案例研究，以研究岛屿性在任何语言欣赏中的作用。不同的和特殊的社会语言学和类型学现象是否可以归因于岛屿及其岛屿性，反之亦然，仍未得到研究。这一立场条款认为，与大陆和大陆的语言相比，岛屿上使用的语言可能有任何特别之处。它源于2018年4月30日在丹麦奥胡斯大学举行的题为“探索岛屿语言”的研讨会。提出的主要问题是:岛屿的语言在社会、语言、语法和类型学上有什么特殊之处吗?如果是这样的话，还有可能谈论岛屿语言这种东西吗?

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