36.1804, Books: Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory: D'Alessandro, Putnam, and Terenghi (eds.) (2025)

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Date: 10-Jun-2025
From: Rachel Havard [Rachel.HAVARD at oup.com]
Subject: Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory: D'Alessandro, Putnam, and Terenghi (eds.) (2025)


Title: Heritage Languages and Syntactic Theory
Publication Year: 2025

Publisher: Oxford University Press
           http://www.oup.com/us
Book URL:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/heritage-languages-and-syntactic-theory-9780198876182?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics

Editor(s): Roberta D'Alessandro, Michael T. Putnam, and Silvia
Terenghi

Hardcover: 9780198876182
Ebook

Abstract:

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford
Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open
access locations.
This volume explores a wide range of structural phenomena in
typologically diverse heritage languages using current Minimalist
theoretical approaches. Heritage languages have been the focus of
extensive research in the last three decades; by virtue of their
inherent diversity stemming from initial learning conditions, they
pose significant challenges to traditional methods of linguistic
description that rely on uniform conceptions of what 'knowledge of
language' should be. Despite the existence of inter- and intra-speaker
variation in the grammars of heritage languages, there are also
significant shared development trends and structural outcomes that
cannot be considered to be purely circumstantial. The studies
presented in this volume illustrate the practicality and usefulness of
subjecting domains of heritage language syntax to rigorous formal
analysis.
The chapters also have implications for theory-building efforts within
the current Minimalist landscape; they force a reassessment of our
understanding of the ideal speaker-hearer (Chomsky, 1965) in the
context of bi- and multi-competent individuals and communities. In
line with recent trends in contemporary Minimalism that largely eschew
the notion of traditional parameters and an enriched view of Universal
Grammar, the integration of heritage languages into syntactic theory
adds an important piece of the puzzle relating to linguistic
competence. The volume also in some respects calls for a re-evaluation
of the prevailing stance that the syntax of heritage languages is
predominantly immune to significant decay or change.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Linguistic Theories
                     Morphology
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Syntax




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