Heritage Languages and their Speakers

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to heritage languages and their speakers, covering grammar, phonetics, phonology, morphology, morphosyntax, semantics, pragmatics, and psycholinguistics. It explores resilient and vulnerable domains and highlights recurrent structural properties across multiple heritage languages.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 432 pages
Publication date: 02 April 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

This groundbreaking book offers a comprehensive and pioneering exploration of heritage languages and their speakers, penned by one of the field's founding figures. Through a wide array of language examples, it delves into all major aspects of grammar, encompassing phonetics and phonology, morphology and morphosyntax, semantics and pragmatics, and showcasing a seamless familiarity with diverse approaches, ranging from formal grammar to typology, sociolinguistics to child language acquisition, and other pertinent domains of psycholinguistics. The book provides insightful analysis of both resilient and vulnerable domains in heritage languages, with a particular focus on recurring structural properties observed across multiple heritage languages. It explicitly acknowledges instances where current knowledge hinders reaching definitive conclusions on specific claims or analytical points, thus serving as a valuable resource for future research endeavors.

Weight: 634g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781107642966