Dynamics of information structure in language contact

本研究旨在探讨文化遗产语言使用者的语言表达中的动态信息结构。它的研究问题直接来自研究单元“新兴语法”（RUEG1）第一阶段的相关发现。该项目将调查三个领域的相关信息结构：（i）引入新的指称，（ii）主题建设，（iii）重点和韵律。我们将在RUEG语料库，其中包括德语，英语，俄语，希腊语和土耳其语的单语和双语扬声器选定的子语料库中调查这些现象。复杂的相互作用（形态）的句法和语调的信息结构的表达已被证明是开放的语言接触的情况下，我们收集的数据在RUEG1的新发展。本研究将以信息结构为中心，从比较的角度考察信息结构与句法、语调的相互作用，并将研究问题与研究单位的新合资企业联系起来。

This project investigates the dynamics in the linguistic expression of information structure in the repertoires of heritage language speakers. Its research questions directly emerge from pertinent findings from the first phase of the Research Unit “Emerging Grammars” (RUEG1). The project will investigate three areas relevant for information structure: (i) introduction of new referents, (ii) topic constructions, and (iii) focus and prosody. We will investigate these phenomena in selected subcorpora of the RUEG corpus, which comprises mono- and bilingual speakers of German, English, Russian, Greek and Turkish. The intricate interplay of (morpho)syntax and intonation for the expression of information structure has been shown to be open to new developments in the language contact contexts in which we collected data in RUEG1. In this project, we will make information structure the central focus of our research, investigating the interplay of information structure with syntax and intonation in a comparative perspective, and relating our research questions to the new Joint Ventures of the Research Unit.