Slavic in a multilingual setting: Register and fused (hybrid) lects (A03)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: since 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416591334

A03 investigates register variation in two multilingual contexts each involving two Slavic languages and a hybrid/mixed language (Ukrainian-Russian-Suržyk and Czech-Polish-Po naszymu). We examine linguistic behavior relative to situational-functional parameters in both contexts as well as social meaning of (non)hybrid utterances by conducting corpus analyses and experiments. Lastly, we aim at modeling register variation in multilingual contexts by testing its integration into existing models (single grammar vs. multiple grammars approaches).

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1412: Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
• Applicant Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Roland Meyer; Professor Dr. Luka Szucsich