This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, adopting an integrated approach to diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include psycholinguistic and acquisition-oriented aspects of child and adult multilingualism such as bilingual language processing, second language acquisition, and bilingual first language acquisition; social, formal-structural, and conversational aspects of code switching; diachronic and typological aspects of contact-induced language change such as lexical and structural borrowing, contact languages, pidgins and creoles, convergence, and linguistic areas; as well as societal aspects of multilingualism, language management in multilingual societies, receptive multilingualism and lingua francas, language maintenance and language shift, multilingualism in computer-mediated communication, and more. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation and welcomes contributions from a variety of approaches.
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"As the first volume dedicated to the study of Italian as a heritage language, Romano´s collection will be a go-to work for anyone interested in Italian or Sicilian as minority languages. By examining various majority language pairings and contexts, these studies not only establish new knowledge but also serve as a jumping-off point to spark further research into the complex and multifaceted interplay of factors surrounding Italian heritage language acquisition. "
Melissa A. Bowles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Francesco Bryan Romano, Halmstad University, Sweden.|
Francesco Bryan Romano, Halmstad University, Sweden.
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.
This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, using an integrated approach to both diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include child and adult bilingualism and multilingualism, contact languages, borrowing and contact-induced typological change, code switching in conversation, societal multilingualism, bilingual language processing, and various other topics related to language contact. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation, and includes contributions from a variety of approaches.
"As the first volume dedicated to the study of Italian as a heritage language, Romano's collection will be a go-to work for anyone interested in Italian or Sicilian as minority languages. By examining various majority language pairings and contexts, these studies not only establish new knowledge but also serve as a jumping-off point to spark further research into the complex and multifaceted interplay of factors surrounding Italian heritage language acquisition. "
Melissa A. Bowles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
