TY - JOUR A1 - Wiese, Heike A1 - Rehbein, Ines T1 - Coherence in new urban dialects: A case study JF - Lingua : international review of general linguistics N2 - This paper investigates evidence for linguistic coherence in new urban dialects that evolved in multiethnic and multilingual urban neighbourhoods. We propose a view of coherence as an interpretation of empirical observations rather than something that would be "out there in the data", and argue that this interpretation should be based on evidence of systematic links between linguistic phenomena, as established by patterns of covariation between phenomena that can be shown to be related at linguistic levels. In a case study, we present results from qualitative and quantitative analyses for a set of phenomena that have been described for Kiezdeutsch, a new dialect from multilingual urban Germany. Qualitative analyses point to linguistic relationships between different phenomena and between pragmatic and linguistic levels. Quantitative analyses, based on corpus data from KiDKo (www.kiezdeutschkorpus.de), point to systematic advantages for the Kiezdeutsch data from a multiethnic and multilingual context provided by the main corpus (KiDKo/Mu), compared to complementary corpus data from a mostly monoethnic and monolingual (German) context (KiDKo/Mo). Taken together, this indicates patterns of covariation that support an interpretation of coherence for this new dialect: ourfindings point to an interconnected linguistic system, rather than to a mere accumulation of individual features. In addition to this internal coherence, the data also points to external coherence: Kiezdeutsch is not disconnected on the outside either, but fully integrated within the general domain of German, an integration that defies a distinction of "autochthonous" and "allochthonous" German, not only at the level of speakers, but also at the level of linguistic systems. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KW - Covariation KW - Internal and external coherence KW - Kiezdeutsch KW - Urban dialects KW - Bare NPs KW - Light verbs KW - Directive particles KW - German forefield Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2015.10.016 SN - 0024-3841 SN - 1872-6135 VL - 172 SP - 45 EP - 61 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wiese, Heike A1 - Pohle, Maria T1 - "I go to the Cinema" or" to the Cinema"? Restrictions of Usage of noncanonical Local Data JF - Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft N2 - 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. KW - Kiezdeutsch KW - bare local expressions KW - prepositions KW - repertoire KW - register competence KW - Standard German Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1515/zfs-2016-0012 SN - 0721-9067 SN - 1613-3706 VL - 35 SP - 171 EP - 216 PB - De Gruyter Mouton CY - Berlin ER -