Ömer Hekim, M.A.

E-Mail: ohekim@uni-mainz.de
Doctoral subject: Turkic Linguistics
(Working) title of the dissertation: Language Contact in Heritage Uyghur
Mentor at the JGU: Univ. -Prof. Dr. Julian Rentzsch
Department: Faculty 05: Philosophy and Philology, Turkology
Topic of the dissertation:
The aim of my doctoral project is to identify the contact phenomena of heritage Uyghur spoken in Western Europe and Turkey contexts with a particular focus on the analysis of code-copying patterns of Uyghur-German and Uyghur-Turkish. Additionally, I will investigate the fundamental linguistic and social factors behind morphologic, syntactic, and semantic changes observed in spoken heritage Uyghur.