Article published in:
Stability and Divergence in Language Contact: Factors and MechanismsEdited by Kurt Braunmüller, Steffen Höder and Karoline Kühl
[Studies in Language Variation 16] 2014
► pp. 141–162
Stability in Chinese and Malay heritage languages as a source of divergence
Suzanne Aalberse | Universteit van Amsterdam
Francesca Moro | Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
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 described
in terms of change. This article focuses on three types of stability in heritage
speakers: stability in form, based on two case studies on progressive and definite
marking, stability in function, based on a study on classifiers in Mandarin and
Cantonese Chinese, and stability in form and meaning based on a study on the
non-completion of the grammaticalization process of punya. We relate (non)-
change to the influence of the dominant language as well as to more general
effects of bilingualism.
Published online: 26 November 2014
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.16.07aal
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.16.07aal
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