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] , 25
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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