The Development of Grammar

Language acquisition and diachronic change

In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel

Edited by Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch
Goethe University Frankfurt / University of Hamburg
This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition as well as the relation between language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change. The recurrent topic of the volume is the link between linguistic variation and the limitation of structural variability in the framework of a well-defined theory of language. In this respect, the volume opens up new perspectives for future research.
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 11]  2011.  viii, 414 pp.
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch
1–15
Part I. (2)L1 versus L2 versus child L2
‘Acquisition’ in grammatical development: What does word order tell us?
Susanne Elizabeth Carroll
19–46
Tense and Aspect in early French development in aL2, 2L1 and cL2 learners
Suzanne Schlyter
47–74
Subject clitics in child L2 acquisition of French
Anne-Kathrin Preissler
75–103
Placement of infinitives in successive child language acquisition
Aldona Sopata
105–121
Part II. The acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories
The developmental pathway of nominal functional categories in early child Mandarin: Language specific features and other driving factors
Meiyun Chang-Smith
125–149
The emergence of CP in child Basque: Evidence for a fine-structured CP?
Noemi Kintana
151–178
Some directions for the systematic investigation of the acquisition of Cypriot Greek: A new perspective on production abilities from object clitic placement
Kleanthes K. Grohmann
179–203
Strict Interfaces and three kinds of Multiple Grammar
Thomas Roeper
205–228
Part III. Autonomous development vs. crosslinguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition
Delay and acceleration in bilingual first language acquisition: The same or different?
Marisa Patuto, Valentina Repetto and Natascha Müller
231–261
Intonation targets of yes/no questions by Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual children
Conxita Lleó and Martin Rakow
263–286
Perception of German vowels by bilingual Portuguese-German returnees: A case of phonological attrition?
Cristina Maria Moreira Flores and Andréia Schurt Rauber
287–305
Part IV. Language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change
Acquisition in the context of language change: The case of Brazilian Portuguese null subjects
Mary Aizawa Kato
309–330
On the diachronic reanalysis of null subjects and null objects in Brazilian Portuguese: Triggers and consequences
Jairo Nunes
331–354
On the decrease in subject-verb inversion in French declaratives
Georg Kaiser and Michael Zimmermann
355–381
On the relation between acceptability and frequency
Aria Adli
383–403
Index

Subjects

Benjamins Subject classification

Linguistics

BIC Subject

CFDM: Bilingualism & multilingualism

BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics
U.S. Library of Congress Control Number:  2011000208
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