This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of languages, it covers all the main components of grammar, including phonetics and phonology, morphology and morphosyntax, semant...

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Main Author:	Polinsky, Maria 1956- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY Cambridge University Press 2018
Series:	Cambridge studies in linguistics 159
Subjects:	Minderheitensprache Heritage language speakers Linguistic minorities / Language Linguistic minorities Language and culture
Summary:	This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of languages, it covers all the main components of grammar, including phonetics and phonology, morphology and morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics, and shows easy familiarity with approaches ranging from formal grammar to typology, from sociolinguistics to child language acquisition and other relevant aspects of psycholinguistics. The book offers analysis of resilient and vulnerable domains in heritage languages, with a special emphasis on recurrent structural properties that occur across multiple heritage languages. It is explicit about instances where, based on our current knowledge, we are unable to reach a clear decision on a particular claim or analytical point, and therefore provides a much-needed resource for future research
Physical Description:	xxii, 410 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:	9781107642966 9781107047648