This book provides a pioneering introduction to heritage languages and their speakers,
written by one of the founders of this new field. Using examples from a wide range of …

Heritage speakers who re-learn their childhood language in adulthood are an important
group for the study of L3 acquisition. Such re-learners have selective advantages over other …

Korean has proven to be an invaluable language to theoretical linguists, providing abundant
examples of, and counterexamples to, key theoretical issues at the forefront of modern …

The syntactic and semantic complexity of the so-called numeral classifier (num-cl)
constructions in languages like Korean (Japanese and Chinese as well) has been a …

The present study explores how native speakers of Korean interpret Korean transitive
sentences with semantically ambiguous floating numeral quantifiers (FNQs). Previous …

As is well known, Korean has four types of numeral classifier constructions, each of which
differs from the others in terms of word order between nominal elements and numeral+ …

В монографии рассматриваются важные и, в основном, спорные или малоизученные
аспекты корейской грамматики, такие как разграничение топика подлежащего …

Split intransitivity (SI) is the generalization that intransitive verbs form two subclasses: the
subjects of some intransitives behave like direct objects of transitive verbs, whereas the …

When studying the nature of human language, we frequently ask ourselves the following
question: Do native speakers agree with our judgments of the sentences in question? Many …

This study investigates the knowledge of unaccusativity in Japanese native, heritage, and
second/foreign language speakers with respect to licensing of floating numeral quantifiers …