Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language / / ed. by Francesco Bryan Romano.
The book is dedicated to the linguistic, psycholinguistic, and ethnolinguistic dimensions of Italian as a heritage language spoken by minorities in the Americas and Europe. The contributions deepen our understanding of heritage language bilingualism in general, especially by comparing the acquisitio...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XV, 324 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Heritage language development: Dominant language transfer and the sociopolitical context
- Part I: Experimental studies
- Chapter 2 Ultimate attainment in long-immersed heritage Italian immigrants: Syntactic and semantic knowledge of direct object clitics and partitive ne
- Chapter 3 Grammatical competence in adult heritage speakers of Italian and adult immigrants: A comparative study
- Chapter 4 Ultimate attainment of gender in heritage and L2 Italian
- Chapter 5 Auxiliary selection in heritage speakers of Italian
- Chapter 6 The acquisition of syntactic structures in heritage Italian: Assessing the role of language exposure at critical periods
- Chapter 7 The expression of (deontic and epistemic) modality in Italian as heritage language in Germany
- Part II: Observational studies
- Chapter 8 Italian as heritage language in third generations on social networks: Morphosyntactic code-switching features
- Chapter 9 Discourse markers in heritage Italian spoken in Flanders
- Chapter 10 Auxiliary selection in Italo-Romance heritage languages: Argentina and the UK
- Conclusion and future directions
- Index