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Humboldt-Universität Berlin
Institut für Asien- und Afrikawissenschaften
Seminar für Afrikawissenschaften
Prof. Dr. Tom Güldemann
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Tel.: 030 2093 6672 // Fax: 030 2093 6687
Homepage: http://www2.hu-berlin.de/asaf/Afrika/Mitarbeiter/Gueldemann.html
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Linguistics
Florian Lionnet
1203 Dwinelle Hall, UC Berkeley
USA-Berkeley, CA 94720-2650
Tel.: +1 510 642 2757 // Fax: +1 510 643 5688
Homepage: http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/index.php
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Bielefeld
Brisbane
London
Manchester
Discourse and prosody across language family boundaries: two corpus-based
case studies on contact-induced syntactic and prosodic convergence in the
encoding of information structure
Bewilligung: 20.06.2011 Laufzeit: 2 Jahre
This project investigates similarities in the grammars of unrelated languages that result
from convergence through extensive bilingualism within speech communities. It involves
two pairs of endangered languages from different language families: two northern
Australian languages from the Non-Pama-Nyungan (Jaminjung) and the Pama-Nyungan
group (Ngarinyman), and two languages spoken in the Central Solomon Islands but
belonging to the "Papuan" (Savosavo) and the Austronesian group (Gela). The focus will
be on the domain of information structure, i.e. the use of intonation, word order, and
grammatical marking to indicate the status of referents in discourse (e.g. topicality,
degrees of unexpectedness, prominence, and contrast). It has been claimed that
languages in contact will exhibit more similarities in this domain, especially in intonation
patterns, than in other areas of grammar. This project will present one of the few case
studies systematically testing this claim, based largely on annotated recordings
previously archived by the researchers which will allow them to investigate the use of
grammatical structures in their discourse context.
Universität Bielefeld
Fakultät für Linguistik und Literaturwissenschaft
Dr. Claudia Wegener
University of London
School of Oriental and African Studies
Department of Linguistics
Senior Teaching Fellow
Dr. Candide Simard
GROSSBRITANNIEN
University of Manchester
Faculty of Humanities
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures
Department of Linguistics and English Language
Prof. Dr. Eva Friederike Schultze-Berndt
GROSSBRITANNIEN