Kiezdeutsch as a multiethnolect

Freywald, Ulrike; Mayr, Katharina; Özçelik, Tiner; Wiese, Heike

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“…For the case of Kiezdeutsch, such a view of multiethnolects as a variety gets support from an acceptability study we did in Berlin (Freywald et al, 2008). For this study, we chose sentences that reflected core features that have consistently been reported for Kiezdeutsch in the literature (cf.…”

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Grammatical innovation in multiethnic urban Europe: New linguistic practices among adolescents

Wiese

2009

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“…Wiese emphasizes, however, that there are no 'monolingual' Kiezdeutsch speakers, in the sense that for all of its users it is just one variety in a repertoire that will also include either German or a minority language at the very least, and its use is determined by style and situation; in this sense, it is no different from traditional dialects. Another important feature is that, though the neighborhoods where Kiezdeutsch is spoken may be dominated by one ethnicity, for instance Turkish, Kurdish or Arabic, there is never only one involved, and this has led to the term 'multiethnolect' being used to characterize Kiezdeutsch (Freywald et al 2011). Finally, Kiezdeutsch displays a number of changes that are characteristic of contact languages: Wiese (2009: 785-790) provides an overview.…”

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“…For the purposes of this article, the multiethnic subcorpus will be the source of most of the data. In addition, the judgment survey carried out by Freywald et al (2011) is reported on where relevant.…”

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Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old

Walkden

2017

J Comp German Linguistics

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Certain recently-attested varieties of Germanic V2 languages are known to deviate from the strict V2 requirement characteristic of the standard. This is the case, for example, for Kiezdeutsch, a new German dialect, as well as urban vernacular varieties of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish: descriptively speaking, in these varieties, subject-verb inversion may be absent under certain well-defined conditions. In this article I outline those conditions and the type of syntactic analysis required to account for them, claiming that an articulated left periphery is needed to account for the findings. The similarity of the V3 patterns found in these new varieties, which are geographically isolated from each other but which share a characterization in terms of the demographics of their speaker groups, invites a diachronic account in terms of language contact. I argue that transfer cannot account for V3, but that a scenario of sequential simplification and complexification is able to do so. Finally, turning to Old English, which exhibits similar (though not identical) V2/V3 alternations, I argue that a similar synchronic analysis can be upheld and that its diachronic origins may well also have been similar-a case of using the present to inform our approach to the past.

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“…A perception study (cf. Freywald et al ) strengthens the presumption that particular linguistic practices are indeed recognised as part of a distinctive variety by both speakers with a multi‐ethnic and speakers with a monoethnic (i.e. German) background.…”

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Today, long-term effects of migration into Germany are shown most notably in the emergence of linguistic practices of young people, many of them second or third generation migrants, in urban areas. Turkish German describes a way of speaking that first emerged in young people's speech in multi-ethnic urban areas and was first associated with Turkish adolescents. Later, it became widely known through its appearance in films, comedies and rap songs. In contrast to earlier studies on immigrants' language in Germany (see section 1), Turkish German is not associated with imperfect acquisition but with the manner in which speakers actively construct and perform ethnic identities and other social meanings via language. Turkish German is conceptualised either as an ethnolect, or an ethnic style, implying different research traditions with focus on different aspects of linguistic descriptions. Other studies choose the term 'Kiezdeutsch' over Turkish German to emphasise the ways of speaking multiethnolectal dimension.It is the aim of this article to present different linguistic approaches to Turkish German, with a critical discussion of some of the key concepts, and to give an overview over its linguistic features and functions on the basis of relevant empirical studies on the linguistic practices among Turkish-German bilinguals.

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Kiezdeutsch as a multiethnolect

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Grammatical innovation in multiethnic urban Europe: New linguistic practices among adolescents

Grammatical innovation in multiethnic urban Europe: New linguistic practices among adolescents

Language contact and V3 in Germanic varieties new and old

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