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 UR - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3676 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-38376 ER -