Erosion of case and agreement in hindi heritage speakers

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-176

  Montrul, Silvina ^a   Bhatt, Rakesh ^a   Bhatia, Archna ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Attrition; Case marking; Ergativity; Heritage speakers; Hindi syntax; Morphosyntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989390078     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18799264     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/lab.2.2.02mon     Document Type: Article

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