Irina Usanova

List of John Benjamins publications in which Irina Usanova is involved.

Title

Biscriptuality: Writing skills among German-Russian adolescents

Irina Usanova

In the context of constantly increasing linguistic diversity in many parts of the world, opportunities and challenges arise for the acquisition of literacy skills. The successful development of literacy skills becomes a crucial prerequisite for educational attainment determining future career… read more

[Hamburg Studies on Linguistic Diversity, 8] 2019. xvi, 257 pp.

Articles

Brehmer, Bernhard and Irina Usanova 2017 Biscriptality and heritage language maintenance: Russian in Germany Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity, Peukert, Hagen and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 99–121 | Chapter

The paper deals with the script choices made by bilingual Russian-German children when they are asked to compose texts in their Russian heritage language. Furthermore, the relationship between script choice and overall proficiency in the heritage language is investigated. We compare two different… read more

Brehmer, Bernhard and Irina Usanova 2015 Let’s fix it? Cross-linguistic influence in word order patterns of Russian heritage speakers in Germany Transfer Effects in Multilingual Language Development, Peukert, Hagen (ed.), pp. 161–188 | Article

The paper analyzes verb placement of heritage speakers of Russian in contexts where German has a fixed position of the finite verb: V2 in declarative main clauses and V-final in subordinate clauses. Russian exhibits a neutral SVO order in both cases, but verb placement is in general dependent on… read more