Heritage Languages and Their Speakers

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

List 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.

About the author

Maria Polinsky is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Director of the Language Science Centre at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Summary

A pioneering introduction to heritage languages that covers all the main components of grammar and shows easy familiarity with approaches ranging from formal grammar to typology, and from sociolinguistics to psycholinguistics. Written by a leading scholar in the study of heritage languages, it is the foundational book on the subject.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Polinsky, Maria (University of Maryland Polinsky, Polinsky Maria
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781107047648
• ISBN: 978-1-107-04764-8
• No. of pages: 430
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Linguisti; Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Historical and comparative linguistics