1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795375303321

Autore

Aalberse Suzanne

Titolo

Heritage languages : a language contact approach / / Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus, Pieter Muysken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia : , : John Benjamins Publishing Company, , [2019]

©2019

ISBN

90-272-6176-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 pages)

Collana

Studies in bilingualism ; ; Volume 58

Disciplina

305.7

Soggetti

Linguistic minorities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Heritage speakers and heritage languages -- History of the field of heritage language studies -- Social aspects of heritage languages -- Bilingual language use -- Methods for collecting heritage language data -- Studying variability in heritage language speaker populations -- and the base line -- Heritage language phenomena and what triggers them -- Grammatical models and research paradigms -- Language processing in multilingual speakers -- Heritage languages in a post-colonial setting: focus on Papiamentu -- The political dimension of heritage languages: endangered languages, -- language rights, and the preservation of diversity -- Technical terms used in this book related to heritage languages

Sommario/riassunto

"Heritage languages, such as the Turkish varieties spoken in Berlin or the Spanish used in Los Angeles, are non-dominant languages, often with little prestige. Their speakers also speak the dominant language of the country they live in. Often heritage languages undergo changes due to their special status. They have received a lot of scholarly attention and provide a link between academic concerns and educational issues. This book takes a language contact perspective: we consider heritage languages from the perspective of their history, their structural properties, and their interaction with other surrounding languages"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9911019930103321

Autore

Antony Louise M

Titolo

Chomsky and His Critics

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Wiley, 2008

ISBN

9786611319564

9781281319562

1281319562

9780470700433

0470700432

9780470690024

047069002X

9780470779774

0470779772

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (354 p.)

Collana

Philosophers and their Critics

Altri autori (Persone)

HornsteinNorbert

Disciplina

191

410/.92

Soggetti

Language and languages

Philosophy

Linguistics - Philosophy

Languages & Literatures

Philology & Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Chomsky on the Mind-Body Problem; 2 Chomsky's Challenge to Physicalism; 3 Real Materialism; 4 Naturalistic Inquiry: Where does Mental Representation Fit in?; 5 Chomsky, Intentionality, and a CRTT; 6 Referential Semantics for I-languages?; 7 Meaning and its Place in the Language Faculty; 8 Small Verbs, Complex Events: Analyticity without Synonymy; 9 In Defense of Public Language; 10 The Theory Theory as an Alternative to the Innateness Hypothesis; 11 Replies; Reply to Lycan; Reply to Poland; Reply to Strawson; Reply to Egan



Reply to ReyReply to Ludlow; Reply to Horwich; Reply to Pietroski; Reply to Millikan; Reply to Gopnik; Major Works by Noam Chomsky; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this compelling volume, ten distinguished thinkers -- William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan -- address a variety of conceptual issues raised in Noam Chomsky's work. Distinguished list of critics: William G. Lycan, Galen Strawson, Jeffrey Poland, Georges Rey, Frances Egan, Paul Horwich, Peter Ludlow, Paul Pietroski, Alison Gopnik, and Ruth Millikan. Includes Chomsky's substantial new replies and responses to each essay. The best critical introduc