Grammatical reduction in Germany’s polyethnolect

Velibekova Irina Mirimovna

Postgraduate Student, Department of German and Romance Philology

Volgograd State University


Abstract. The article considers the grammatical features of Germany’s poly-ethnolect. The author describes formation of new grammatical structures in Germany’s poly-ethnolect: particleslike lassma / musstu and verbal-nominal constructions like Ich mach dich Messer as well as undertakes a comparative analysis of these with the same grammatical structures of literary variant of the German language. The author emphasizes the systematic formation of these structures, which leads to the conclusion about the formation of an independent productive grammatical system of Germany’s poly-ethnolect.

Key words: language variability, ethnolect, poly-ethnolect, linguistic contact, grammatical reduction, grammatical construction.

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