Masha on heritage language in Frontiers
December 04, 2015
Linguistics
Now in
Frontiers, an
article ) on the relevance of heritage linguistics to the study of linguistic competence, from
Maria Polinsky and collaborators
Gregory Scontras and
Zuzanna Fuchs. The paper presents a series of case studies, documenting some of the deficits and abilities typical of heritage speakers – in morphosyntax, argument structure, relativization and scope – together with the broader theoretical questions they inform.