"I go to the Cinema" or" to the Cinema"? Restrictions of Usage of noncanonical Local Data
- Study 1 targets grammatical restrictions, based on a corpus of peer group conversations among adolescents. We show that noncanonical variants have the form of bare NPs with or without preposition and appear in both multilingual and monolingual speech communities, following the same syntactic and semantic patterns. While there is a quantitative advantage for the multilingual group, noncanonical variants generally constitute only a minority compared to canonical full PP[DP]. Study 2 targets usage restrictions across communicative situations, based on a corpus of elicited productions by adolescents from a multilingual urban neighbourhood. Comparisons show significantly more noncanonical local expressions in informal, peer-group situations than in formal ones for both spoken and written modes. Taken together, results indicate a selective, grammatically restricted and register-bound choice of noncanonical local expressions.
Author details: | Heike WieseGND, Maria Pohle |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2016-0012 |
ISSN: | 0721-9067 |
ISSN: | 1613-3706 |
Title of parent work (German): | Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft |
Publisher: | De Gruyter Mouton |
Place of publishing: | Berlin |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | German |
Year of first publication: | 2016 |
Publication year: | 2016 |
Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
Tag: | Kiezdeutsch; Standard German; bare local expressions; prepositions; register competence; repertoire |
Volume: | 35 |
Number of pages: | 46 |
First page: | 171 |
Last Page: | 216 |
Organizational units: | Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Germanistik |
Peer review: | Referiert |