Abstract

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: small;">This paper presents a survey of Faroese <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wh</em>-nominals, in particular (i) the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hvør N</em> construction, (ii) the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hvat fyri (ein) N</em> construction, and (iii) the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hvat slag av N.<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">dat</span> </em>construction. The first construction involves a <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">wh</em>-item which is used both pronominally, corresponding to English <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">who </em>and <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what</em>, and adnominally, corresponding to English <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">which, what (N)</em>, and <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what kind of</em>. The second construction is the Faroese version of the <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">was für/what for</em> construction, including versions with and without an indefinite article and with and without both the preposition (<em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fyri</em>) and the indefinite article (i.e. a “bare <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">what</em>” construction). The last construction involves an overt <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">kind </span>noun which must be followed by the preposition <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">av </em>‘of’ which in turn assigns dative case to the main/head noun. The survey is based on data collected during the NORMS fieldwork in the Faroe Islands in August 2008, focusing on a number of morphosyntactic issues as well as the semantic distinction between <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">kind </span>and <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">token </span>interpretation. The various findings on Faroese are compared to data on other varieties of Germanic, in particular the North Germanic ones.</span></span></p>

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