Dynamics of discourse organisation in language contact

本项目基于“新兴语法”（RUEG1）研究小组各种项目第一阶段的有希望的发现，研究传统语言使用者和英语、德语和土耳其语单语使用者在语言使用中的话语组织动态。接触语言设置将涵盖与德语，英语和库尔德语接触的土耳其语；德语与土耳其语、库尔德语、英语、俄语和希腊语接触；以及英语与土耳其语、德语、俄语和希腊语的接触。与其他RUEG项目合作，我们将与俄语和希腊语（作为德国和美国的主要语言和传统语言）的语料库数据进行进一步的比较。我们将通过针对语篇标记、事件关联和开始/结束，在词汇项、分句和宏观结构的层面上研究语篇的组织。涉及话语组织的语言手段已被证明对语言接触的新发展特别开放，特别是在传统语言语境中。在拟议的项目中，我们将在RUEG2的新合资企业中详细研究话语组织的动态。

This project investigates the dynamics of discourse organisation in the language use of heritage speakers and of monolingual speakers of English, German, and Turkish, based on promising findings from the first phase of various projects of the Research Unit “Emerging Grammars” (RUEG1). Contact-linguistic settings will cover Turkish in contact with German, English, and Kurdish; German in contact with Turkish, Kurdish, English, Russian, and Greek; and English in contact with Turkish, German, Russian, and Greek. In collaboration with the other RUEG projects we will conduct further comparisons with corpus data from Russian and Greek (as majority languages and as heritage languages in Germany and the U.S.). We will investigate the organisation of discourse at the level of lexical items, clauses, and macrostructure, by targeting discourse markers, event relating, and openings/closings. Linguistic means involved in the organisation of discourse have proved to be particularly open to new developments in language contact, and especially so in heritage language contexts. In the proposed project, we will investigate the dynamics of discourse organisation in detail within the new Joint Ventures of RUEG2.