Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language / ed. by Francesco Bryan Romano.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Badan, Linda, Contributor.

Bello Viruega, Iria, Contributor.

Bonfatti Sabbioni, Maria Teresa, Contributor.

Caloi, Irene, Contributor.

De Cristofaro, Elisa, Contributor.

Di Salvo, Margherita, Contributor.

Diaubalick, Tim, Contributor.

Ferrini, Caterina, Contributor.

García Alcaraz, Estela, Contributor.

Garraffa, Maria, Contributor.

Goria, Eugenio, Contributor.

Guijarro Fuentes, Pedro, Contributor.

Listanti, Andrea, Contributor.

Montrul, Silvina, Contributor.

Romano, Francesco Bryan, Editor.

Romano, Francesco, Contributor.

Schmitz, Katrin, Contributor.

Smith, Giuditta, Contributor.

Sorace, Antonella, Contributor.

Spelorzi, Roberta, Contributor.

Torregrossa, Jacopo, Contributor.

Viveros Guzmán, Sergio, Contributor.

Series:

Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] Series

Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] , 2190-698X ; 25

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XV, 324 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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 acquisition of inflectional morphology in Italian with the processes at play in other heritage languages.

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

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110759587

3110759586

OCLC:

1378176710