Research
Wintai Tsehaye is a research fellow and PhD candidate at the Chair of English Linguistics (AI) of the University of Mannheim. After graduation, she joined a project investigating German as a heritage language in the USA within the research unit Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations (RUEG) funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Her research interests straddle the interface of language contact research, multilingualism, and corpus linguistics, with a special focus on syntactic and morphological register variation.
Biographic Information
- Tsehaye, W. (2023). Light-weights placed right: post-field constituents in heritage German. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1–13.
- Pashkova, T., Tsehaye, W., Allen, S. E. M. and Tracy, R. (2022). Syntactic optionality in heritage language use: Clause type preferences of German heritage speakers in a majority English context. Heritage Language Journal, 19, 1–41.
- Wiese, H., Alexiadou, A., Allen, S. E. M., Bunk, O., Gagarina, N., Iefremenko, K., Martynova, M., Pashkova, T., Rizou, V., Schroeder, C., Shadrova, A., Szucsich, L., Tracy, R., Tsehaye, W., Zerbian, S. and Zuban, Y. (2022). Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1–19.
- Tsehaye, W., Pashkova, T., Tracy, R. and Allen, S. E. M. (2021). Deconstructing the native speaker: further evidence from heritage speakers for why this horse should be dead!. Frontiers in Political Science, 12, 1–14.
- Tausch, J. and Tsehaye, W. (2022). Sprachwandel im Kontext von Migration – innovative Sprachverwendung bei mehrsprachigen SprecherInnen. Symposium: Sprachwandel oder Sprachverfall?, Stuttgart, Germany.
- Tsehaye, W. (2022). Subordinate clauses across registers in heritage speakers' majority and heritage language. International Colloquium Heritage Languages Around the World (HLAW), Lisboa, Portugal, Online.
- Tsehaye, W. and Tracy, R. (2022). Complexity deconstructed: Syntactic complexity and task complexification. Heritage Language Syntax 3, Paris, France.
- Tsehaye, W. (2021). Clause type distribution across registers in heritage German. RUEG Conference – Dynamics of Language Contact, Online.
- Tsehaye, W. (2021). The right sentence periphery: syntactic variation in heritage German. HLS2: Heritage Language Syntax 2, Online.
- Tsehaye, W., Bunk, O. and Iefremenko, K. (2020). Language contact versus internal dynamics in heritage speakers’ use of discourse markers. 42. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft (DGfS), Sprachliche Diversität: Theorien, Methoden, Ressourcen, Hamburg, Germany.
- Tsehaye, W., Pashkova, T., Tracy, R. and Allen, S. E. M. (2020). Structural optionality in heritage speakers' narratives. 1st Heritage Language Syntax, Online.