Zuzanna Fuchs

List of John Benjamins publications in which Zuzanna Fuchs is involved.

Journal

Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism

Edited by Holger Hopp and Tanja Kupisch

ISSN 1879-9264 | E‑ISSN 1879‑9272

Articles

Fuchs, Zuzanna, Maria Polinsky and Gregory Scontras 2024 Chapter 12. Explaining gender: Lessons from heritage Spanish Multifaceted Multilingualism, Grohmann, Kleanthes K. (ed.), pp. 292–326 | Chapter

This work examines the knowledge of grammatical gender by bilingual speakers for whom Spanish is the weaker language in the dyad, that is, heritage speakers of Spanish. In modeling heritage speakers’ knowledge and use of grammatical gender, we distinguish between gender assignment (how nouns get… read more

Fuchs, Zuzanna 2022 Facilitative use of grammatical gender in Heritage Spanish Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 12:6, pp. 845–871 | Article

This paper presents an eye-tracking study using the Visual World Paradigm that tests whether participants are able to access gender information on definite articles and deploy it to facilitate lexical retrieval of subsequent nouns. A comparison of heritage speakers of Spanish with control… read more

Fuchs, Zuzanna and Jenneke van der Wal 2022 The locus of parametric variation in Bantu gender and nominal derivation Linguistic Variation 22:2, pp. 268–324 | Article

In this paper, we capture the crosslinguistic variation in Bantu nominal structure in a unified analysis of gender on n (Kramer 2014, 2015). We demonstrate that this analysis accounts for the morphosyntactic properties of basic nouns as well as locative and diminutive derivations. Moreover, it… read more