Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language

✍ Scribed by Francesco Bryan Romano (editor)

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 342
• Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB]; 25
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

　

　

✦ Table of Contents

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: Obserational 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