Faroese Danish Corpus Hamburg, Danish subcorpus (FADAC-DAN Hamburg).

The ‘Faroese Danish Corpus Hamburg’ (FADAC Hamburg) is a corpus of spoken, informal language (440, 000 words) that has been collected as part of the project ‘Variation in the multilingualism on the Faroe Islands’ (K8) at the Collaborative Research Center on Multilingualism at the University of Hamburg (Sonderforschungsbereich 538 Mehrsprachigkeit). The corpus consists of 92 informal interviews (20-60 minutes) in both Faroese and Danish with speakers from three generations (70+, 40-50, 16-21), the participants being evenly distributed with regard to age and gender. There are 37 recordings from the same people in both Faroese and Danish, in addition to 15 recordings made only in Faroese and 4 only in Danish. All consultants have Faroese as L1 and Danish as L2. Apart from questions concerning necessary information about the speakers’ sociolinguistic characteristics and language backgrounds, only few predefined questions about school, hobbies, and children’s games are asked in the interviews. Otherwise, the interviews (recorded on the Faroe Islands from 2005 to 2009) are conducted as a kind of informal talk about the Faroe Islands, trips abroad, books, and the Second World War (with the oldest generation). The recordings were transcribed in EXMARaLDA (Extensible Markup Language for Discourse Annotation), applying the HIAT-conventions in general plus some K8-specific conventions in addition. Socioeconomic and sociolinguistic data (such as age, place of birth, ancestry, education, occupation(s), time spent in countries other than the Faroe Islands and contact with Danish and other languages) as well as the (linguistic) conditions pertinent to the communication (including information about the language(s) used in the interview, the first/second/third languages of the interviewee and the interviewer) are also part of the corpus.