Maria Polinsky (College Park University of Maryland)

Heritage Languages and Their Speakers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering introduction to heritage languages that covers all the main components of grammar and shows easy familiarity with approaches ranging from formal grammar to typology, and from sociolinguistics to psycholinguistics. Written by a leading scholar in the study of heritage languages, it is the foundational book on the subject.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Linguistics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. April 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 634g
• ISBN-13: 9781107642966
• ISBN-10: 1107642965
• Artikelnr.: 51264032

Autorenporträt

Maria Polinsky is Professor of Linguistics and Associate Director of the Language Science Centre at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Inhaltsangabe

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.