Nominal morpho-syntax and word order in heritage Russian across majority languages

该项目处理的问题，是否以及如何遗产俄罗斯在德国和美国发展新的语法模式方面的名词形态类别和词序。此外，该项目旨在从理论上模拟所调查领域中出现的语法变体，并从RUEG的三个合资企业的角度出发：（一）合资企业一（“语言变化假设”）处理非规范语法模式的系统性，（ii）合资企业二（“界面假说”）将新的语言学发展定位于外部界面与内部界面，及（iii）合营企业III（“内部动力学假说”）区分了语言内部变化和接触引起的变化。为此，我们从两个领域研究语言现象：（1）名词性形态句法，尤其是格，它通常被认为属于包含内部界面的狭义语法系统，但它与词序相互作用;（2）词序现象一方面是位于左前边缘，另一方面是动词的位置。左边缘通常与句法和信息结构/语篇（外部界面）的相互作用有关，而动词的位置（特别是关于直接宾语：中心语补语与补语中心语）被认为属于核心句法。我们将比较遗产扬声器的数据来自俄罗斯的单语俄语扬声器，并根据RUEG的统一启发设置，我们将考虑到非正式/正式和口语/书面登记和年龄。我们的研究结果将进行比较RUEG项目工作的词序现象在其他遗产语言（土耳其语，希腊语，遗产德语），并在大多数语言（德语，英语），以及在希腊语作为遗产语言的名词形态句法的结果。该项目将有助于理解双语（或多语）社区的语言变化，这取决于多种因素（情境/登记相关，涉及不同的接触语言环境，社会，输入相关等）。通过采取强烈的比较方法，并对新兴的语法模式进行理论解释。

The project tackles the question of whether and how heritage Russian in Germany and in the US develops novel grammatical patterns as regards to nominal morphological categories and word order. Furthermore, the project aims at theoretically modelling emerging grammatical varieties in the investigated domains and in general from the perspective of RUEG’s three joint ventures: (i) Joint Venture I (“Language Change Hypothesis”) dealing with the systematicity of non-canonical grammatical patterns, (ii) Joint Venture II (“Interface Hypothesis”) locating new linguistic developments at external versus internal interfaces, and (iii) Joint Venture III (“Internal Dynamics Hypothesis”) teasing apart contact-induced from language-internal change.To this end, we investigate linguistic phenomena from two domains: (i) nominal morphosyntax, especially case, which is often taken to belong to the narrow grammatical system involving internal interfaces, but which nevertheless interacts with word order, and (ii) word order phenomena at the left sentential periphery on the one hand, and verb placement on the other. The left periphery is often associated with the interaction of syntax and information structure/discourse (external interface), whereas verb placement (especially with respect to the direct object: head-complement vs. complement-head) is regarded as belonging to core syntax. We will compare heritage speakers’ data to those of monolingual Russian speakers from Russia, and, following RUEG’s unified elicitation setting, we will take informal/formal and spoken/written registers and age into account. Our results will be compared to the RUEG projects working on word order phenomena in other heritage languages (Turkish, Greek, heritage German) and in the majority languages (German, English), as well as to results on nominal morphosyntax in Greek as a heritage language. The project will contribute to the understanding of linguistic change in bi- (or multi-)lingual communities depending on multiple factors (situational/register-related, concerning different contact-linguistic settings, social, input-related etc.) by taking up a strongly comparative approach, and to theoretical accounts of emerging grammatical patterns.