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The Syntax–Pragmatics Interface in Heritage Languages: The Use of anche (“Also”) in German Heritage Speakers of Italian

2023

This paper deals with the use of anche (“also”) by German heritage speakers of Italian (“IHSs”). Previous research showed that anche and its German counterpart auch share many features but also display language-specific characteristics. According to previous research on bilingualism, heritage speakers show cross-linguistic influence (“CLI”) when a linguistic phenomenon is at the syntax–pragmatics interface and there is a partial overlap in the two languages at stake. Therefore, we expect the use of anche in IHSs to be influenced by CLI. By analysing data from a semi-spontaneous corpus, we investigate the production of anche in order to understand which factors shape the grammar of the IHSs.…

Linguistics and LanguageItalianadditive particles; bilingualism; cross-linguistic influence;bilingualismGermanadditive particlesheritage speakerLanguage and Linguisticsadditive particleSettore L-LIN/01 - Glottologia E LinguisticafocalizerSettore L-LIN/14 - Lingua E Traduzione - Lingua Tedescacross-linguistic influenceauch
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