Modeling register variation across languages (A06)

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

Drawing on a language sample encompassing German, Yucatec Maya, Persian, Southern Kurdish, and Javanese, A06 investigates the role of typological properties for possibilities of register variation and gathers insights from multilingual contact situations, where contact-induced grammatical variants as well as code-switching can differ by register. In doing so, A06 analyzes object drop, forms of address and politeness, plural marking, and TAM marking. We draw empirical results primarily from the newly built Lang*Reg corpus, to which we will add results from perception studies and semantic fieldwork, aiming towards a cross-linguistically and cross-culturally informed model of register.

• 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. Aria Adli; Dr. Jozina Vander Klok; Professorin Dr. Elisabeth Verhoeven