@inbook{55861b8199bc40f78f373299da673d07,
title = "Semantics of Heritage Languages",
abstract = "This chapter provides an overview of the research on semantics and related interface phenomena in heritage language grammars, focusing on three main questions: (i) whether the phenomena under investigation are subject to incomplete acquisition and/or attrition in heritage language grammars; (ii) whether heritage language grammars are subject to cross-linguistic influence from the dominant language; and (iii) whether interface phenomena are particularly vulnerable in incomplete acquisition and/or attrition. These questions are investigated in four linguistic domains that fall at the interface between syntax and semantics where there has been a substantial body of research with heritage speakers: semantics of the verbal domain, such as tense/aspect and unaccusativity; semantics of the nominal domain, such as definiteness and genericity; semantics of subject and object expression, including binding and case-marking; and quantifier semantics.",
keywords = "aspect, binding, case, definiteness, differential object marking, genericity, quantifiers, reference, semantics, syntax/semantics interface",
author = "Tania Ionin",
year = "2022",
month = feb,
doi = "10.1017/9781108766340.030",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9781108487269",
series = "Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
pages = "668--690",
editor = "Silvina Montrul and Maria Polinsky",
booktitle = "The Cambridge Handbook of Heritage Languages and Linguistics",
address = "United Kingdom",
}