TY  - GEN
A1  - Auhagen, Christopher Patrick
A1  - Uth, Melanie
T1  - Variation of relative complementizers in Yucatecan Spanish
BT  - A comparison of monolingual and bilingual speakers
T2  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - The starting point of this article is the occurrence of determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers like (en) que, ‘(in) that’, instead of (en) el que, ‘(in) which’, in Yucatecan Spanish (southeast Mexico). While reference grammars treat complementizers with a determiner as the standard option, previous diachronic research has shown that determiner-less complementizers actually predate relative complementizers with a determiner. Additionally, Yucatecan Spanish has been in long-standing contact with Yucatec Maya. Relative complementation in Yucatec Maya differs from that in Spanish (at least) in that the non-complex complementizer tu’ux (‘where’) is generally the only option for locative complementation. The paper explores monolingual and bilingual data from Yucatecan Spanish to discuss the question whether the determiner-less and bare que relative complementizers in our data constitute a historic remnant or a dialectal recast, possibly (but not necessarily) due to language contact. Although our pilot study may not answer these far-reaching questions, it does reveal two separate, but intertwined developments: (i) a generally increased rate of bare que relative complementation, across both monolingual speakers of Spanish and Spanish Maya bilinguals, compared to other Spanish varieties, and (ii) a preference for donde at the cost of other locative complementizer constructions in the bilingual group. Our analysis thus reveals intriguing differences between the complementizer preferences of monolingual and bilingual speakers, suggesting that different variational patterns caused by different (socio-)linguistic factors can co-develop in parallel in one and the [same] region.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 181 
KW  - relative complementation
KW  - variability
KW  - language contact
KW  - diachrony
KW  - Yucatecan Spanish
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-584375
SN  - 1866-8380
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Warditz, Vladislava Maria
T1  - Zum Status syntaktischer Variationen in Sprachkontaktsituationen
T1  - The Status of Syntactic Variations in Linguistic Contact Situations
BT  - Eine Fallstudie zum Polnischen in Deutschland
BT  - A Case Study of Polish in Germany
N2  - The article presents first results of a pilot study on the syntactic changes in Polish as a language contact in Germany. On the base of the experimental data tests the study examines the syntactic changes in Polish of two diaspora-generations: the so called forgetters and the incomplete learners. The article focuses on the questions: how the situation of languages in contact influences the syntactic changes in the heritage language (Polish) and which status have those syntactic transferences. Other linguistic and sociolinguistic factors, capable to cause the language change in the situation of language contact, are also discussed in the article.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Humanwissenschaftliche Reihe - 328 
KW  - language changes
KW  - Polish speaking immigrants in Germany
KW  - language contact
KW  - syntactic changes
KW  - linguistic and sociolinguistic factors of language changes
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-399167
ER  -