Linguistics
Linguistics
Research in linguistics
The professorship for Slavic Linguistics focuses its research and teaching on the Slavic languages of Poland, Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. The research focus is on the connections between language and society and language and cognition. Particular attention is paid to multilingualism in its social meanings and language contacts, linguistic variation and language change with - with regard to the present - a sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic focus and - with regard to the past - an emphasis on the phenomenon of borrowings.
Third-party funded projects
- Silesian between Polish and German, between autochthonous dialects and Polish standards (DFG) - J. P. Zeller, completed
- Contact-induced language change in situations of non-stable bilingualism - its limits and modelling: Slavic (social) dialects in Albania (DFG) - M. Makartsev, completed
- Hybridisation from two sides: Ukrainian-Russian and Russian-Ukrainian. Code-mixing in the context of the (socio)linguistic situation in southern Ukraine along the Black Sea coast (DFG-FWF D-A-CH project) - G. Hentschel, T. Reuther, completed
- German loanwords in Polish dialects as a mirror of language contact: An electronic dictionary with multiple access to an online platform of German loanwords in other languages (DFG) - G. Hentschel, completed
- German-Polish general language lexical parallelisms in contemporary spoken Silesian (BKM), G. Hentschel - completed
- Variability and stability in the mixed substandard: Suržyk (Fritz Thyssen Foundation) - G. Hentschel, completed
- Wörter auf Wanderschaft: Der Weg deutscher Lehnwörter des Polnischen ins Ostslavisch (DFG) G. Hentschel, completed (internal continuation)
- Inflectional morphological irregularity(s) in "current" contact varieties of North Slavic languages (DFG) - G. Hentschel, completed
- Trasjanka in Belarus - a "mixed variety" as a product of Belarusian-Russian language contact (Volkswagen Foundation) - completed
Doctoral projects
Current doctoral projects:
- Margarita Herzog: Family language policy: A qualitative study on language and identity and role construction within Russian-speaking families in Germany
- Natascha Knjasew: Processing of morphosyntactic structures in heritage speakers of Russian in Germany: a psycholinguistic study
- Yevheniia Lytvyshko: Language Biographies and Identity Construction: a study of Suržyk speakers through narrative and discourse
- Victoria Steinfeld-Lidzbarski: Aspects of the expressive variation of German loanwords in Polish dialects
An overview of current and completed linguistic doctoral projects can be found here.
Internet resources
- Corpus of Slavic dialects in Albania (web)
- Corpus of Slavic dialects in Albania (repository)
- WDLP: Dictionary of German loanwords in the Polish written and standard language
- WDLT: Dictionary of German loanwords in the Cieszyn dialect of Polish
- WDLP and WDLT on the German loanword portal of the Institute for the German Language, Mannheim
- Saldas: Online bibliography of linguistic works on loanwords from German in other languages
- OK-WRGR: Oldenburg corpus on Belarusian-Russian mixed speech
- Heatmaps for the project "German-Polish general language lexical parallelisms in contemporary spoken Silesian"
- Hentschel, G., Tambor, J. Fekete, I.: Frequency dictionary of German loanwords in contemporary Silesian. With commentaries on etymology / Słownik frekwencyjny niemieckich zapożyczeń leksykalnych we współczesnym lekcie śląskim. Z komentarzami etymologicznymi. Oldenburg - BIS; 105 pp.