Contact-related mixed varieties in Slavic
Contact-related mixed varieties in Slavic
Background
This specialisation focuses on mixed varieties in "current" situations of intensive contact between Slavic, i.e. closely related and structurally similar languages. Northern Slavic languages are considered: Kashubian, Silesian and Russian-Lemk in contact with Polish in Poland as well as Belarusian and Ukrainian in contact with Russian in Belarus and Ukraine respectively. Socially, these contacts are asymmetrical, with Polish and Russian as the dominant languages. In these cases, there is a high degree of "mixed speech", if not new, mixed varieties. In Belarus and Ukraine, these are very prominent and already have special names: "Trasjanka" and "Suržyk" respectively.
Publications on the topic:
Internet resources
- The Oldenburg corpus of Belarusian-Russian mixed speech: OK-WRGR
- Documentation on the Oldenburg corpus of Ukrainian Suržyk (OKUS)
Third-party funded projects
- 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.
German Research Foundation and Fund for Scientific Research, Austria (DFG-FWF D-A-CH), G. Hentschel, T. Reuther (Klagenfurt, Austria) - Silesian between Polish and German, between autochthonous dialects and Polish standard. Sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic aspects of a double linguistic hybridisation.
Deutsche Forschungsgesellschaft, J. P. Zeller - Contact-induced language change in situations of non-stable bilingualism - its limits and modelling: Slavic (social) dialects in Albania. German Research Association, Maxim Makartsev
- Variability and stability in the mixed substandard: Suržyk (Fritz Thyssen Foundation)
- Inflectional morphological irregularity(ies) in "current" contact varieties of North Slavic languages (DFG)
- Trasjanka in Belarus - a "mixed variety" as a product of Belarusian-Russian language contact (Volkswagen Foundation)
Doctoral projects
Ongoing:
- Yevheniia Lytvyshko: Language Biographies and Identity Construction: a study of Suržyk speakers through narrative and discourse
Completed:
- Oxana Brandes: Developmental tendencies in the inflectional morphology of the Belarusian-Russian 'mixed variety' Trasjanka and the Russian subvariety Prostorečie in comparison to standard language and dialect
- Daria Grecko: Languages and the construction of collective identity among young adults in Belarus
- Anastasia Reis: Endogenous and exogenous inflectional morphological change in small languages: The case of Lemkian between Polish, Slovak and Ukrainian
- Sviatlana Tesch: Syntagmatic aspects of mixed Belarusian-Russian speech: code-switching, code-mixing and related phenomena
- Jan Patrick Zeller: Phonetic variation in Belarusian-Russian mixed speech