Bilingual Grammar: Toward an Integrated Model

Abstract

LUIS LÓPEZ, Bilingual Grammar: Toward an Integrated Model. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2020. viii + 229 pp. This monograph constitutes an indispensable source of information for those interested in bilingualism, (formal) grammar, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience of language and, more generally, second language acquisition studies. It aims to construct a plausible theory of bilingualism built upon solid linguistic arguments, which borrow particular inspiration from the research practices in Distributed Morphology (DM) (Alexiadou et al. Forthcoming; Halle and Marantz 1993) and, arguably the latest version of generative syntax, the Minimalist Program (Boeckx 2006; 2011; Chomsky 1991, 1993, 1995; Grohmann and Leivada Forthcoming; Hornstein Forthcoming; Hornstein, Nunes, and Grohmann 2005). The volume is rounded off with two appendices on the syntax of code-switching and the issue of the post-Creole continua (193–205), a fairly extensive bibliographical apparatus (211–224) where the interested reader can find further references to some of the studies alluded to in the main text, and the usual index verborum (225–229) that facilitates the search of specific technical terms. The notes from the main text are also included at the end of the book, which, unfortunately, impedes fluent reading.