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  • Heritage Languages and their Speakers

    Heritage Languages and their Speakers by Polinsky, Maria;

    Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; 159;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Cambridge University Press
    • Date of Publication 2 April 2020

    • ISBN 9781107642966
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages434 pages
    • Size 228x152x28 mm
    • Weight 650 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 49 b/w illus. 16 tables
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    Short description:

    A pioneering study of heritage languages, from a leading scholar in this area of study world-wide.

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    Long description:

    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.

    'Maria Polinsky has written a comprehensive and authoritative work that will be an indispensable point of reference for future research on heritage languages. Her book takes a very detailed look at heritage languages, but it never loses sight of a central question for all linguists: what does it mean to be a speaker of a language?' Grant Goodall, University of California, San Diego

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    Table of Contents:

    1. Introduction; 2. Heritage English; 3. How to study heritage speakers: some observations on the methodologies and approaches; 4. Phonetics and phonology; 5. Morphology and morphosyntax; 6. Syntax; 7. Semantics and pragmatics; 8. Heritage speakers in unexpected places; Conclusions.

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