Linguistic dynamics in heritage speakers : Insights from the RUEG group

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-98554-134-8
Verlag: Language Science Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 596 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 1296 g

Reihe: Current Issues in Bilingualism

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.

Zielgruppe

Wissenschaft

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Shanley E. M.

Keller, Mareike

Alexiadou, Artemis

Wiese, Heike

Über Autor(innen)

Alexiadou, Artemis
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.

Keller, Mareike
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.

Allen, Shanley E. M.
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.

Wiese, Heike
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.