Register effects in discourse expectations: Negation and modality in English (A07)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 416591334

A07 investigates doubling constructions (e.g., negative concord, modal concord) in varieties of English in different situational-functional settings. It elevates the inquiry from the description and data validation of the phenomena in Phase I to the more specific hypothesis testing and modeling. Formal theoretical analyses, offline and online psycholinguistic methods and the state-of-art Bayesian statistical techniques will be used to tackle and model the variation in the use, comprehension, and perception of the related register variants in discourse.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1412: Register: Language-Users’ Knowledge of Situational-Functional Variation
• Applicant Institution: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• Project Head: Professorin Dr. Mingya Liu