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Structure vs. use in heritage language

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Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 30. Juli 2016

Abstract

This paper provides an overview of the phenomenon of heritage language and offers evidence in support of representational differences between (baseline) native grammars and heritage grammars, arguing that such differences that cannot be reduced entirely to the effects of processing constraints or memory limitations. Data from heritage Spanish number/gender agreement and from Russian ellipsis indicate that baseline native grammars and heritage grammars may have a fundamentally different organization of certain categories.

Acknowledgment

I am grateful to David Adger, Vera Gribanova, Jason Merchant, Eric Potsdam, Greg Scontras, and an anonymous reviewer for helpful comments. All errors are my own.


Note

The title of this paper echoes work presented in Adger (2015), and our conclusions are in fact similar. This work was supported in part by NSF (grants BCS-1144223 and BCS-1619857), the Davis Center and the Instituto Cervantes Observatory at Harvard University. Abbreviations follow the Leipzig glossing rules.


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Received: 2016-5-1
Accepted: 2016-6-9
Published Online: 2016-7-30
Published in Print: 2016-12-1

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