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Heritage languages and syntactic theory / edited by Roberta D'Alessandro, Michael T. Putnam, Silvia Terenghi

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]Copyright date: ©2025Description: 1 Online-Ressource : illustrationsISBN:
  • 9780191987731
  • 9780198876199
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9780198876182 | Erscheint auch als: 9780198876182 Druck-AusgabeDDC classification:
  • 415 23
LOC classification:
  • P291
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- List of contributors -- Heritage languages and syntactic theory: An introduction -- Part I Linguistic theory and language variation -- 1 Microcontact and syntactic theory -- 2 Systematic and predictable variation in heritage grammars: The role of complexity, diachronic change, and linguistic ambiguity in the input -- Part II Sentence structure -- 3 Heritage language gaps -- 4 Word order and prosody in the expression of information structure -- Part III The Verb Phrase -- 5 Non-active voice in heritage Greek
6 The shape and size of defective domains: Non-finite clauses in Pennsylvania Dutch -- Part IV The DP -- 7 Parallel changes in pronominal clitic systems: A view from heritage Romance and Slavic -- 8 The DP layer in heritage Norwegian: Vulnerability and nominal architecture -- References -- Index
Summary: This volume explores a wide range of structural phenomena in typologically diverse heritage languages using current Minimalist theoretical approaches. The chapters show that the integration of these languages into syntactic theory adds an important piece of the puzzle relating to linguistic competencePPN: PPN: 1922663670Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
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