Determiner Phrases with French in Contact: Studies on Language Change (B04)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages ; Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
• Term: since 2026
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 551281144

The project investigates how linguistic and political factors modulate cross-linguistic influence and language change. To this end, we compare how early bilingual speakers of French in France who have also acquired a regional minority language since childhood (Basque, Catalan, Corsican, Portuguese) use definite articles in their two languages for generic and possessive marking, and with proper names. Since French has a long tradition of extreme policies for the promotion of French, bidirectional influence between French and the minority language is expected.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1760: SiNoSi: Silence, Noise and Signal in Language
• Applicant Institution: Universität Konstanz
• Project Heads: Professor Dr. Georg A. Kaiser; Professorin Dr. Tanja Kupisch