Introducing Heritage Languages and Variation

Abstract

The grammar of heritage language speakers has attracted extended scholarly interest in the last few decades. While many different cultural and grammatical aspects have been discussed to explain the deviant language trajectory of heritage speakers, the variation found with respect to the different facilitative factors and criteria as well as linguistic phenomena is still investigated. With the current volume, we present studies from diverse and cross-linguistic research, following the International Conference on 'Heritage Languages and Variation (HELV)' held at the University of Cyprus in 2022.