32.714, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language

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LINGUIST List: Vol-32-714. Thu Feb 25 2021. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 32.714, FYI: Call for Book Chapters: Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language

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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 23:28:17
From: Francesco Romano [francesco.romano at sh.se]
Subject: Call for Book Chapters: Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language

 
The editor of “Linguistic approaches to Italian as a heritage language”
invites you to submit a chapter to an edited volume to be pitched to the John
Benjamins series titled ‘Studies in Bilingualism’. The volume will contain
recent research on the thriving area of heritage language acquisition focusing
on Italian, a lesser-studied language, which is nevertheless important for the
development of heritage language bilingualism on many fronts. For one, Italian
is typologically similar to its Romance brother, Spanish, which currently
continues to stand at the forefront of the heritage language research
landscape. The ability to juxtapose Italian to Spanish enables us to test
current tentative hypotheses drawn from the mainstream findings of Spanish as
a heritage language and draw firmer conclusions upon it. In addition, Italian
presents a robust case for detailing the acquisition of inflectional
morphology, a domain which has time and again shown to constitute a staple of
ab initio normal language development, atypical language development, and
non-native language attainment.

In the first round of submissions, simple proposals for chapters that describe
previously unpublished whole or parts of empirical studies focusing on any of
phonology, semantics, syntax, morphology, and pragmatics are encouraged. The
proposal should be submitted via email to the editor (see information below)
and contain the following:

1. A tentative title
2. Domain of grammar
3. Number of tables expected
4. A current CV

All queries welcome.

Francesco Romano
Södertörn University
Department of English
School of Culture and Education
Alfred Nobels Allé 7
141 89 Stockholm
Sweden
francesco.romano at sh.se
 



Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Italian (ita)





 



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