After 6 successful years, the Research Unit "Emerging Grammars in Language-Contact Situations" (https://hu.berlin/rueg) came to an end in March 2024.

The RUEG corpus that we created will remain accessible, through full open access. The corpus contains naturalistic yet systematically comparable data from language productions of a total of 774 heritage and monolingually-raised speakers:
- in English, German, Greek, Russian, and Turkish
- in formal and informal settings, spoken and written
- by multilingual and monolingual speakers, adolescents and adults
- in Germany, Greece, Russia, Turkey, and the US

Data in the corpus were collected via elicited narrations of a short video clip of a minor car accident. In addition to the basic transcription (over 550K words), the data are annotated for syntactic spans, lemmata, language, and part of speech. Subsets of the data are also annotated for specific phonological, lexical, morphosyntactic, and discourse-pragmatic phenomena.

We encourage everyone to keep using the RUEG corpus as a resource for research on language contact; language variation and change; majority and heritage language use; register differentiation; youth language; computer-mediated communication (CMC); lexicon, morphosyntax, and discourse-pragmatics; and much more.

Check out the RUEG corpus at https://hu.berlin/rueg-corpus

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)
German (deu)
Greek, Modern (ell)
Russian (rus)
Turkish (tur)