Soziolinguistik trifft Korpuslinguistik

The collective monograph is a contribution to the empirically oriented research of German-Polish and -Czech bilingualism, bringing together socio- and corpus-linguistic perspectives. It was developed within the framework of the German-Polish project 'Language across generations: contact induced change in morphosyntax in German-Polish bilingual speech'. The German-Polish corpus 'LangGener' is presented, which comprises interviews recorded by bilinguals from two generations defined according to language acquisition criteria. The German-Czech corpus created in a sub-project is based on interviews with two different migration groups. A corpus linguistic novelty is the annotation of language biographical facts and of language contact phenomena such as replications. The volume also provides a practical guide for the creation of sociolinguistic corpora on multilingualism.