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Italo-Romance Heritage Languages
Multiple approaches
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 studies on relatively well-documented communities with investigations of lesser-known groups and linguistic phenomena. A distinctive feature of the book is its search for a shared framework for studying Italo-Romance heritage language communities, namely one that takes into account the wide range of linguistic resources present in these settings. The chapters include in-depth studies of Italian and Italo-Romance heritage languages, as well as analyses of more complex repertoires, such as communities where both Italian and dialect are spoken, and onward migrant communities in Berlin and London.
[Studies in Bilingualism, 68] 2025. vi, 302 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 11 September 2025
Published online on 11 September 2025
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
- Preface: Multiple approaches to Italo-Romance heritage languagesEugenio Goria and Margherita Di Salvo | pp. 1–7
- Choosing between Italian, dialect and English: Linguistic repertoires across generations of first and second generation Italian migrants in Bedford (UK)Margherita Di Salvo | pp. 8–36
- Linguistic biographies and contact phenomena in Mannheim’s first generations of Italian emigrantsCaterina Ferrini | pp. 37–63
- ‘Medium’ choice in a community of Italians in the UKValentina Del Vecchio | pp. 64–100
- Parlare italiano a Malta è un extra benefit: The linguistic repertoire of Italians in Malta and the use and maintenance of their L1Sandro Caruana | pp. 101–129
- Segmental changes triggering perceived attrition in the native speech of a migrant groupManuela Frontera | pp. 130–149
- The Italian(s) of first generation migrants in Australia: A first exploration of phonetic featuresValentina De Iacovo and John Hajek | pp. 150–171
- Baselines in contact: The case of Piedmontese in ArgentinaMassimo Cerruti, Eugenio Goria and Riccardo Regis | pp. 172–198
- On the vitality of Sardinian as a heritage language: A corpus-based studySimone Pisano, Vittorio Ganfi and Valentina Piunno | pp. 199–227
- Onward migration from Italy to the UK: Italian language maintenance and useFrancesco Goglia | pp. 228–246
- Italian in transit: Superdiverse repertoires and code-switching in Italian-based multilingual practices in a Berlin parkMarta Lupica Spagnolo | pp. 247–288
- Closing remarksMassimo Vedovelli | pp. 289–299
- Index | pp. 301–302
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Di Salvo, Margherita
2025. Choosing between Italian, dialect and English. In Italo-Romance Heritage Languages [Studies in Bilingualism, 68], ► pp. 8 ff.
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