TY  - BOOK
A1  - Wiese, Heike
A1  - Freywald, Ulrike
A1  - Mayr, Katharina
T1  - Kiezdeutsch as a test case for the interaction between grammar and information structure
N2  - This paper deals with Kiezdeutsch, a way of speaking that emerged among adolescents in multiethnic urban neighbourhoods of Germany. We show that, in Kiezdeutsch, we find evidence for both grammatical reduction and new developments in the domain of information structure, and hypothesise that this points to a systematic interaction between grammar and information structure, between weakened grammatical constraints and a more liberal realisation of information-structural preferences. We show that Kiezdeutsch can serve as an interesting test case for such an interaction, that this youth language is a multiethnolect, that is, a new variety that is spoken by speakers from a multitude of ethnic backgrounds, including German, and forms a dynamic linguistic system of its own, thus allowing for systematic developments on grammatical levels and their interfaces with extragrammatical domains.
T3  - Interdisciplinary studies on information structure : ISIS ; working papers of the SFB 632 - 12 
KW  - interface between grammar and information structure
KW  - focus particle
KW  - left periphery
KW  - multiethnolect
KW  - acceptability study
Y1  - 2009
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-38376
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Putten, Saskia van
T1  - The meaning of the avatime additive particle tsyɛ
N2  - Avatime, a Kwa language of Ghana, has an additive particle tsyɛ that at first sight looks similar to additive particles such as too and also in English. However, on closer inspection, the Avatime particle behaves differently. Contrary to what is usually claimed about additive particles, tsyɛ does not only associate with focused elements. Moreover, unlike its English equivalents, tsyɛ does not come with a requirement of identity between the expressed proposition and an alternative. Instead, it indicates that the proposition it occurs in is similar to or compatible with a presupposed alternative proposition.
KW  - additive particle
KW  - focus particle
KW  - contrast
KW  - Kwa languages
Y1  - 2013
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-66081
ER  -