Studies in Italian as a Heritage Language

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. 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 Ed. By Francesco Bryan Romano. Issued Also In Print. Mode Of Access: Internet Via World Wide Web. In English.