About this title
A research monograph examining how heritage speakers of Spanish, Hindi and Romanian in the United States drive morphosyntactic change, with differential object marking as the central case study. Montrul connects social and cognitive factors and timing of acquisition to argue for heritage speakers as a distinctive type of native speaker.
Intended audience
- heritage language researchers
- second language acquisition scholars
- bilingualism researchers
- linguistics graduate students
Subject classification
- Heritage Language Studies
- Bilingualism
- Morphosyntax
- Language Change
Scope
- heritage speakers as native speakers
- differential object marking
- morphosyntactic change in heritage grammars
- Spanish, Hindi and Romanian as heritage languages
- intergenerational transmission
Chapter themes
- heritage speakers as native speakers
- structural change in heritage grammars
- differential object marking
- DOM in heritage spanish
- DOM in heritage hindi
- DOM and clitic doubling in heritage romanian
- intergenerational transmission
Bibliographic details
- Title
- Native Speakers, Interrupted: Differential Object Marking and Language Change in Heritage Languages
- Year
- 2023
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- ISBN
- 9781108845748
- Catalogue authors
- Silvina Montrul
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