Forthcoming: Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers: Insights from the RUEG group

Shanley E. M. Allen (ed), Mareike Keller (ed), Artemis Alexiadou (ed), Heike Wiese (ed)

Synopsis

This collective volume investigates linguistic dynamics in language contact, focusing on heritage speakers. The chapters provide new insights into the role of speaker repertoires and the distinction between contact-induced change and language-internal variation by reporting on corpus-linguistic studies across different communicative situations in heritage and majority languages. Conducted in the context of the DFG Research Unit “Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations” (FOR 2537), the studies focus on bilingual adolescent and adult speakers of German, Greek, Russian and Turkish as heritage languages, and of English and German as majority languages, and on monolingually raised adolescent and adult speakers of all five languages. Crucially, they are not restricted to standard language, but target broader speaker repertoires that cover informal as well as formal settings in both spoken and written modes. The contributions are united by their positive perspective on language contact and multilingual speakers, a comparative approach across several heritage and majority languages, and a shared methodology that captures variation within repertoires for both heritage speakers and monolinguals. The chapters take various theoretical standpoints, highlighting different facets of the data as well as its potential for enhancing our understanding of language contact and language variation.

Chapters

  • Introduction
    Investigating the dynamics of language-contact situations
    Heike Wiese, Shanley E. M. Allen, Mareike Keller, Artemis Alexiadou
  • Part I: Methodology and application
  • Tapping into speakers’ repertoires
    Elicitation of register-differentiated productions across groups
    Heike Wiese, Annika Labrenz, Albrun Roy
  • Mapping the mappings and then containing them all
    Quality assurance, interface modeling, and epistemology in complex corpus projects
    Anna Shadrova, Martin Klotz, Rahel Gajaneh Hartz, Anke Lüdeling
  • Family Language Dynamics
    Strengthening heritage speakers’ linguistic resources
    Judith Purkarthofer,, Rosemarie Tracy, Sofia Grigoriadou, Johanna Tausch
  • Part II: Dynamics of grammatical structure
  • Inter- and intra-individual variation
    How it materializes in Heritage German and why it matters
    Wintai Tsehaye, Rosemarie Tracy, Johanna Tausch
  • Null subjects in heritage Greek, Russian and Turkish
    Onur Özsoy, Vasiliki Rizou, Maria Martynova, Natalia Gagarina, Luka Szucsich, Artemis Alexiadou
  • Dynamics of verbal aspect in heritage Greek, Russian and Turkish
    Vasiliki Rizou, Onur Özsoy, Maria Martynova, Luka Szucsich, Artemis Alexiadou, Natalia Gagarina
  • Clause combining in narrative discourse
    A contrastive analysis across heritage and majority languages
    Christoph Schroeder, Kateryna Iefremenko, Kalliopi Katsika, Annika Labrenz, Shanley E. M. Allen
  • Balkan Turkic as a model for understanding contact-induced change in Turkish
    Cem Keskin
  • Dynamic properties of the heritage speaker lexicon
    Nadine Zürn, Mareike Keller, Rosemarie Tracy, Anke Lüdeling
  • Part III: Dynamics of pragmatic structure
  • Information packaging and word order dynamics in language contact
    Oliver Bunk, Shanley E. M. Allen, Sabine Zerbian, Tatiana Pashkova, Yulia Zuban, Erica Conti
  • Intonation in heritage languages
    Sabine Zerbian, Yulia Zuban, Marlene Böttcher, Oliver Bunk
  • Majority English of heritage speakers
    Tatiana Pashkova, Marlene Böttcher, Kalliopi Katsika, Sabine Zerbian, Shanley E. M. Allen
  • Dynamics of discourse markers in language contact
    Annika Labrenz, Kateryna Iefremenko, Kalliopi Katsika, Shanley E. M. Allen, Christoph Schroeder, Heike Wiese
  • Discourse openings and closings across languages in contact
    Kalliopi Katsika, Annika Labrenz, Kateryna Iefremenko, Shanley E. M. Allen

Biographies

Shanley E. M. Allen

Shanley Allen is Professor of Psycholinguistics and Language Development at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau. Her research focuses on first and second language acquisition and processing in the areas of morphosyntax, information structure, and understudied languages.

Mareike Keller

Mareike Keller is a postdoctoral fellow in English Linguistics at the University of Mannheim. Her research interests include language change, lexical development, and code switching.

Artemis Alexiadou

Artemis Alexiadou is Director of the Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft (ZAS) in Berlin and Professor of General Linguistics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her research focuses on syntax and its interfaces with other domains of the architecture of grammar.

Heike Wiese

Heike Wiese is Professor of German in Multilingual Contexts at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and was the speaker of the DFG Research Unit FOR 2537 "Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations" (RUEG). Her research focuses on grammatical and sociolinguistic aspects of language variation and development in multilingual contexts.

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Published

September 30, 2024
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Series

Current Issues in Bilingualism

Online ISSN

2747-9927

Print ISSN

2747-9919
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Allen, Shanley E. M., Keller, Mareike, Alexiadou, Artemis & Wiese, Heike (eds.). Forthcoming. Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers: Insights from the RUEG group. (Current Issues in Bilingualism). Berlin: Language Science Press.
Copyright (c) 2024 Shanley Allen, Artemis Alexiadou, Mareike Keller, Heike Wiese; Annika Labrenz, Albrun Roy, Anna Shadrova, Martin Klotz, Rahel Gajaneh Hartz, Anke Lüdeling, Judith Purkarthofer,, Rosemarie Tracy, Sofia Grigoriadou, Johanna Tausch, Onur Özsoy, Wintai Tsehaye, Vasiliki Rizou, Maria Martynova, Natalia Gagarina, Luka Szucsich, Christoph Schroeder, Kateryna Iefremenko, Kalliopi Katsika, Cem Keskin, Nadine Zürn, Oliver Bunk, Sabine Zerbian, Tatiana Pashkova, Yulia Zuban, Erica Conti, Marlene Böttcher

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