29.3287, Books: Heritage Languages and their Speakers: Polinsky

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Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:24:02
From: Louise Bowes [lbowes at cambridge.org]
Subject: Heritage Languages and their Speakers: Polinsky

 


Title: Heritage Languages and their Speakers 
Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Linguistics 159  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://cambridge.org
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/languages-linguistics/psycholinguistics-and-neurolinguistics/heritage-languages-and-their-speakers?format=HB 


Author: Maria Polinsky

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107047648 Pages: 430 Price: U.S. $ 130.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107047648 Pages: 430 Price: U.K. £ 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107047648 Pages: 430 Price: Europe EURO 110.87


Abstract:

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.

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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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