Code-Mixing und Informationsstruktur im italienisch-deutschen Sprachkontakt in Südtirol: Anmerkungen zum Korpus Kontatto

The present paper will present a study on language contact between Italian and German in South Tyrol. The analysed data are extracted from the corpus Kontatto, a bilingual corpus collected by Silvia Dal Negro (cf. Ciccolone/Dal Negro [2021]). The analysis will focus on the use of code-mixing to mark the information structure in bilingual utterances, i. e. utterances with one or more language switches between topic and comment or between information units in general. These contact phenomena are crucial in bilingual speech and, according to the frequency and diffusion of the specific elements used in code-mixing, can also assume a systematic character.