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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 competen...

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Other Authors: D'Alessandro, Roberta, 1973- (Editor), Putnam, Michael T. (Editor), Terenghi, Silvia (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Syntax.
Linguistic minorities.
Syntaxe.
Minorités linguistiques.
Linguistics.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES.
Historical & Comparative.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • List of contributors
  • Heritage languages and syntactic theory: An introduction
  • Part I Linguistic theory and language variation
  • 1 Microcontact and syntactic theory
  • 2 Systematic and predictable variation in heritage grammars: The role of complexity, diachronic change, and linguistic ambiguity in the input
  • Part II Sentence structure
  • 3 Heritage language gaps
  • 4 Word order and prosody in the expression of information structure
  • Part III The Verb Phrase
  • 5 Non-active voice in heritage Greek
  • 6 The shape and size of defective domains: Non-finite clauses in Pennsylvania Dutch
  • Part IV The DP
  • 7 Parallel changes in pronominal clitic systems: A view from heritage Romance and Slavic
  • 8 The DP layer in heritage Norwegian: Vulnerability and nominal architecture
  • References
  • Index