Linguistic development of multi-linguals with migration background: Usage of finite and non-finite structures in German and Turkish
Verantwortlich: Seda Yılmaz Woerfel
Betreuer/innen: Prof. Dr. Christoph Schroeder, Dr. Yazgül Şimşek & Prof. Dr. Carol W. Pfaff
Projektbeschreibung: My dissertation presents a qualitative analysis of early bilingual Turkish-German student’s oral and written text productions in narrative and expository contexts. The corpus consists of data from a longitudinal study (LLDM - Free University of Berlin/ MULTILIT - University of Potsdam & Free University of Berlin) of bilinguals in the 10th and 12th grade (secondary school) in Berlin, Germany. The main focus is on the function of converbs in the framework of functional pragmatics and their role in propositional and illocutionary acts. As well as, the function of the equivalent structures in German and the variety of Turkish in Germany will be compared. The aim is to show the role of cross-linguistic influences (transfer, innovation, semantic change, syntactic variation), as well as how this can be related to sociolinguistic variables (dominant school language, Turkish instructions, family language, first exposure to German language in the language contact situation)