CRC 1412/2: A06: Modeling register variation across languages (SP A06)

Drawing on a language sample encompassing German, Yucatec Maya, Persian, Southern Kurdish, and Javanese, A06 investigates the role of typological properties for possibilities of register variation and gathers insights from multilingual contact situations, where contact-induced grammatical variants as well as code-switching can differ by register. In doing so, A06 analyzes object drop, forms of address and politeness, plural marking, and TAM marking. We draw empirical results primarily from the newly built Lang*Reg corpus, to which we will add results from perception studies and semantic fieldwork, aiming towards a cross-linguistically and cross-culturally informed model of register.