This paper discusses a common reality in many cases of multilingualism: heritage speakers,
or unbalanced bilinguals, simultaneous or sequential, who shifted early in childhood from …

With a growing interest in heritage languages from researchers of bilingualism and linguistic
theory, the field of heritage-language studies has begun to build on its empirical …

This book presents a new cross-linguistic analysis of gender and its effects on
morphosyntax. It addresses questions including the syntactic location of gender features; the …

This is an introduction to the structure of sentences in human languages. It assumes no prior
knowledge of linguistic theory and little of elementary grammar. It will suit students coming to …

This authoritative 2003 textbook provides an overview and analysis of current second
language acquisition research conducted within the generative linguistic framework. Lydia …

The goal of this work is to study certain aspects of the internal structure of
nominal/determiner phrases (DPs). The body of the book is composed of Chapters 2 to 4 …

This article argues that natural languages have two binding strategies that create two types
of bound variable pronouns. Pronouns of the first type, which include local fake indexicals …

Mastery of grammatical gender is difficult to achieve in a second language (L2). This study
investigates whether persistent difficulty with grammatical gender often observed in the …

Phase Theory is the latest empirical and conceptual innovation in syntactic theory within the
Chomskyan generative tradition. Adopting a cross-linguistic perspective, this book provides …

This book explores the wide variety of cases in which the plural of nouns is lexical. When a
plural is lexicalized it becomes part of what it is to know a certain word: pence, for example …