The Development of Grammar

Language acquisition and diachronic change

In honour of Jürgen M. Meisel

Editors

Esther Rinke | Goethe University Frankfurt

Tanja Kupisch | University of Hamburg

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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.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/hsm.11

Table of Contents

Introduction

Esther Rinke and Tanja Kupisch | pp. 1–15

Part I. (2)L1 versus L2 versus child L2: Similarities and differences

‘Acquisition’ in grammatical development: What does word order tell us?

Susanne Elizabeth Carroll | pp. 19–46

Tense and Aspect in early French development in aL2, 2L1 and cL2 learners

Suzanne Schlyter | pp. 47–74

Subject clitics in child L2 acquisition of French

Anne-Kathrin Preissler | pp. 75–103

Placement of infinitives in successive child language acquisition

Aldona Sopata | pp. 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 | pp. 125–149

The emergence of CP in child Basque: Evidence for a fine-structured CP?

Noemi Kintana | pp. 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 | pp. 179–203

Strict Interfaces and three kinds of Multiple Grammar

Thomas Roeper | pp. 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 | pp. 231–261

Intonation targets of yes/no questions by Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual children

Conxita Lleó and Martin Rakow | pp. 263–286

Perception of German vowels by bilingual Portuguese-German returnees: A case of phonological attrition?

Cristina Flores and Andréia Schurt Rauber | pp. 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 | pp. 309–330

On the diachronic reanalysis of null subjects and null objects in Brazilian Portuguese: Triggers and consequences

Jairo Nunes | pp. 331–354

On the decrease in subject-verb inversion in French declaratives

Georg Kaiser and Michael Zimmermann | pp. 355–381

On the relation between acceptability and frequency

Aria Adli | pp. 383–403

Index

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Gil, Laia Arnaus & Natascha Müller

2018. French Postverbal Subjects: A Comparison of Monolingual, Bilingual, Trilingual, and Multilingual French. Languages 3:3 ► pp. 29 ff.

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