Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction; 1. On heritage speakers as native speakers; 2. Structural changes in heritage language grammars; 3. Differential Object Marking; 4. Language change and the acquisition of Differential Object Marking; 5. The vulnerability of Differential Object Marking in three heritage languages; 6. Differential Object Marking in Spanish as a heritage language; 7. Differential Object Marking in Hindi as a heritage language; 8. Differential Object Marking and clitic doubling in Romanian as a heritage language; 9. Comparing the three heritage languages; 10. Intergenerational transmission.

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A study of the language acquisition and transmission of Hindi, Spanish and Romanian as heritage languages in the United States.

About the Author

Silvina Montrul is Professor in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and directs the Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism Lab. She is co-editor of the journal Second Language Research and has authored several books, including Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism (2008) and The Acquisition of Heritage Languages (2016).