Native Speakers, Interrupted: Differential Object Marking and Language Change in Heritage Languages
Author:   Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   346
Publication Date:   13 March 2025
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Native Speakers, Interrupted: Differential Object Marking and Language Change in Heritage Languages


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Author:   Silvina Montrul (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.504kg
ISBN:  

9781107589896


ISBN 10:   1107589894
Pages:   346
Publication Date:   13 March 2025
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. On heritage speakers as native speakers; 2. Structural changes in heritage language grammars; 3. Differential Object Marking; 4. Language change and the acquisition of Differential Object Marking; 5. The vulnerability of Differential Object Marking in three heritage languages; 6. Differential Object Marking in Spanish as a heritage language; 7. Differential Object Marking in Hindi as a heritage language; 8. Differential Object Marking and clitic doubling in Romanian as a heritage language; 9. Comparing the three heritage languages; 10. Intergenerational transmission.

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'A valuable resource for scholars interested in syntactic theory, language acquisition, language change, and multilingualism.' Sarah Hopkyns, Language in Society


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Silvina Montrul is Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and directs the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab. She is co-editor of the journal Second Language Research and has authored several books, including Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism (2008) and The Acquisition of Heritage Languages (2016).

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