Heritage Languages and Their Speakers

By Maria Polinsky. 2018

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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.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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• Understanding heritage languages (2019, background): “In heritage Russian, the null ending disappears, which is an expected outcome of the loss of declensional contrasts, and the overt marking is uniformly replaced with the suffix -ov (Polinsky, 2018b: 177–179).”