Chapter published in:
Heritage Languages: A language contact approach
Suzanne Aalberse, Ad Backus and Pieter Muysken
[Studies in Bilingualism 58] 2019
► pp. 161–182

Chapter 8
Grammatical models and research paradigms

Article outline
  • 8.1Introduction
  • 8.2Generative grammar
    • 8.2.1Outline
      • Origin
      • Aims
    • 8.2.2Case study
      • Data selection and method
        • Integration difficulty hypothesis
        • Structural complexity
        • Memory load/contextual embedding
      • Analysis
      • Implications
  • 8.3Variationist sociolinguistics
    • 8.3.1Outline
      • Origin
      • Aims
    • 8.3.2Case study
      • Data selection and method
      • Analysis
      • Implications
  • 8.4Optimality theory
    • 8.4.1Outline
      • Origin
      • Aims
    • 8.4.2Case study
      • Data selection
      • Analysis
      • Implications
  • 8.5Usage-based models
    • 8.5.1Outline
      • Origin
      • Aims
    • 8.5.2Case study
      • Data selection and methods
        • Semantic intensification of negative adjectives
        • Specific interpretation of the use of an indefinite determiner
      • Analysis
      • Implications
  • 8.6Summary discussion: Integrating the models