33.2519, Books: The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages: Frasson

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Subject: 33.2519, Books: The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages: Frasson

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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 15:55:17
From: Tessa Arneri [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages: Frasson

 


Title: The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages 
Subtitle: Innovation and complexification 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2022 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-syntax-of-subject-pronouns-in-heritage-languages 


Author: Alberto Frasson

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460934070 Pages: 305 Price: Europe EURO 35


Abstract:

The syntax of subject pronouns in heritage languages: innovation and
complexification aims to investigate syntactic change in heritage languages,
focussing on discourse features involved in the distribution of different
types of subject pronouns. The author investigates how different types of
subject pronouns interact with syntax and with information structure and what
happens to discourse features when languages get in contact with others.

Based on heritage Italo-Romance data, the author shows that all subject
pronouns have the same internal structure and the differences in their
interpretation depend on a discourse feature: when subject pronouns encode
this feature, they are referentially specific enough to obviate or switch
reference; when subject pronouns lack this feature, they refer to the most
salient discourse antecedent.

Finally, the author reflects on the fact that heritage varieties are always
spoken in contact with other languages, showing that the different
distribution of discourse features in heritage varieties depends on a process
of contact-induced feature-reassembly. Such process represents a source of
innovation in heritage languages, possibly leading to a complexification of
the system.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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