Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 28 March 2025
- ISBN 9780198876182
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 240x163x20 mm
- Weight 560 g
- Language English 699
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Short description:
This volume explores a wide range of structural phenomena in typologically diverse heritage languages using current Minimalist theoretical approaches. The chapters show that the integration of these languages into syntactic theory adds an important piece of the puzzle relating to linguistic competence.
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
This volume explores a wide range of structural phenomena in typologically diverse heritage languages using current Minimalist theoretical approaches. Heritage languages have been the focus of extensive research in the last three decades; by virtue of their inherent diversity stemming from initial learning conditions, they pose significant challenges to traditional methods of linguistic description that rely on uniform conceptions of what 'knowledge of language' should be. Despite the existence of inter- and intra-speaker variation in the grammars of heritage languages, there are also significant shared development trends and structural outcomes that cannot be considered to be purely circumstantial. The studies presented in this volume illustrate the practicality and usefulness of subjecting domains of heritage language syntax to rigorous formal analysis.
The chapters also have implications for theory-building efforts within the current Minimalist landscape; they force a reassessment of our understanding of the ideal speaker-hearer (Chomsky, 1965) in the context of bi- and multi-competent individuals and communities. In line with recent trends in contemporary Minimalism that largely eschew the notion of traditional parameters and an enriched view of Universal Grammar, the integration of heritage languages into syntactic theory adds an important piece of the puzzle relating to linguistic competence. The volume also in some respects calls for a re-evaluation of the prevailing stance that the syntax of heritage languages is predominantly immune to significant decay or change.
Table of Contents:
List of abbreviations
List of Contributors
Heritage languages and syntactic theory: An introduction
Part I Linguistic theory and language variation
Microcontact and syntactic theory
Systematic and predictable variation in heritage grammars: The role of complexity, diachronic change, and linguistic ambiguity in the input
Part II Sentence structure
Heritage language gaps
Word order and prosody in the expression of information structure
Part III The Verb Phrase
Non-active Voice in heritage Greek
The shape and size of defective domains: Non-finite clauses in Pennsylvania Dutch
Part IV The DP
Parallel changes in pronominal clitic systems: A view from heritage Romance and Slavic
The DP layer in heritage Norwegian: Vulnerability and nominal architecture
References
Index
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