Francesca Moro
List of John Benjamins publications for which Francesca Moro plays a role.
Articles
2017 Dominant language transfer in heritage languages: Redefining the ‘structural’, and the ‘transfer’ in ‘structural transfer’ Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity, Peukert, Hagen and Ingrid Gogolin (eds.), pp. 143–162 | Chapter
Heritage languages (HL), like other contact varieties, are subject to considerable transfer. However, the question remains of whetherstructuresare reallytransferredfrom one language to another. Two case studies, one about datives in heritage Spanish, and the other about resultatives in heritage… read more
2014 Stability in Chinese and Malay heritage languages as a source of divergence Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and Mechanisms, Braunmüller, Kurt, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl (eds.), pp. 141–162 | Article
This article discusses Malay and Chinese heritage languages as spoken in the
Netherlands. Heritage speakers are dominant in another language and use their
heritage language less. Moreover, they have qualitatively and quantitatively
different input from monolinguals. Heritage languages are often… read more
2014 Resultative constructions in heritage Ambon Malay in the Netherlands Linguistics in the Netherlands 2014, Auer, Anita and Björn Köhnlein (eds.), pp. 78–92 | Article
Domains where languages have two or more competing syntactic constructions expressing the same meaning may be problematic for bilingual heritage speakers. One such variable domain is the resultative constructions in heritage Ambon Malay, a variety spoken in the Netherlands by Dutch-Ambon Malay… read more