Margherita Di Salvo

List of John Benjamins publications in which Margherita Di Salvo is involved.

Title

Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches

Edited by Eugenio Goria and Margherita Di Salvo

This volume brings together research on Italian and Italo-Romance varieties spoken as heritage languages across the world, with contributions from different fields of linguistics and from diverse regions (the Americas, Australia, Europe). It offers a timely update on the state of the art, combining… read more

[Studies in Bilingualism, 68] 2025. vi, 302 pp.

Articles

Di Salvo, Margherita 2025 Choosing between Italian, dialect and English: Linguistic repertoires across generations of first and second generation Italian migrants in Bedford (UK) Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches, Goria, Eugenio and Margherita Di Salvo (eds.), pp. 8–36 | Chapter

This paper describes the plurilingual repertoires of two Campanian heritage speakers settled in Bedford, England. It focuses on code choice and code-switching between dialect, Italian and English in first and second generation migrants. By comparing the linguistic behaviour of two speakers,… read more

Goria, Eugenio and Margherita Di Salvo 2025 Preface: Multiple approaches to Italo-Romance heritage languages Italo-Romance Heritage Languages: Multiple approaches, Goria, Eugenio and Margherita Di Salvo (eds.), pp. 1–7 | Chapter

Di Salvo, Margherita and Naomi Nagy 2022 Chapter 12. Differential object marking in heritage and homeland Italian Variation in Second and Heritage Languages: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bayley, Robert, Dennis R. Preston and Xiaoshi Li (eds.), pp. 311–336 | Chapter

We examine variable patterns of use of differential object marking (DOM) in conversational Italian recorded in Toronto, Canada, and Calabria, Italy. An exhaustive sample of 366 direct objects, produced by Homeland and three generations of Heritage speakers, shows retention of the DOM system.… read more