Maria Polinsky: Heritage languages and their speakers

Abstract

The present book is penned by Maria Polinsky of the University of Maryland, an established syntactician, scholar of language universals, and, most importantly, student of heritage languages and their speakers. Professor Polinsky is one of the pioneers in the field of heritage languages, an emerging avenue of linguistic research. While this work reflects its author’s broad interest in a wide range of languages, being a study in general linguistics it still exhibits some connections specifically with Slavic linguistics, as it contains numerous Russian and some Polish examples.