MOVA will explore grammatical adaptations in four different linguistic environments – Ukrainian in combination with Polish, Czech, German, and Norwegian. The two Slavic languages, Polish and Czech, are overall more similar to Ukrainian than the two Germanic languages, German and Norwegian. At the same time, certain grammatical properties work differently in the Slavic languages, with Ukrainian sometimes patterning with Polish in contrast to Czech, and sometimes with Czech in contrast to Polish. Similarly, the children’s foreign language, English, which they learn at school, shares some properties with Norwegian, but not German, and in some grammatical respects patterns with Polish/Czech compared to German/Norwegian. We will explore these existing grammatical (dis)similarities between
the relevant languages to investigate how grammatical representations come to be linked or shared in a multilingual mind.