Jürgen M. Meisel
List of John Benjamins publications for which Jürgen M. Meisel plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 0925-0123
Titles
Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel
[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 7] 1994. vi, 282 pp.
Subjects Germanic linguistics | Language acquisition | Multilingualism | Romance linguistics | Syntax
Linear Order and Generative Theory
Edited by Jürgen M. Meisel and Martin D. Pam
[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 7] 1979. ix, 512 pp.
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics
Articles
2024 Chapter 2. Linguistic approaches to language acquisition: Looking back at the formative years of a unified language acquisition theory Perspectives on Input, Evidence, and Exposure in Language Acquisition: Studies in honour of Susanne E. Carroll, Hracs, Lindsay (ed.), pp. 16–51 | Chapter
Acquisition research is an integral part of contemporary linguistic theorizing. 50 years ago, this was not the case. Change came about following a theoretical reorientation that established linguistics as a cognitive science, defining mental grammars as the prime object of study. Here I review… read more
2011 Delayed grammatical acquisition in first language development: Subject-verb inversion and subject clitics in French interrogatives Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 1:4, pp. 347–390 | Article
Recent research comparing simultaneous and successive acquisition of bilingualism suggests that successive acquisition is affected by age-related changes possibly as early as age (of onset of acquisition) 3–4. Since children are typically exposed to colloquial varieties, the primary linguistic… read more
2010 Chapter 12. Age of onset in successive acquisition
of bilingualism: Effects on grammatical development Language Acquisition across Linguistic and Cognitive Systems, Kail, Michèle and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 225–247 | Article
In first language acquisition, monolingual as well as bilingual, every child develops a full grammatical competence in the language s/he is exposed to. This is arguably not the case in second language acquisition (L2). My assumption here is that this is due to the fact that the Language Making… read more
2008 Child second language acquisition or successive first language acquisition? Current Trends in Child Second Language Acquisition: A generative perspective, Haznedar, Belma and Elena Gavruseva (eds.), pp. 55–80 | Article
This paper explores the question of whether child L2 acquisition is more like L1 or adult L2. An analysis of the acquisition of finiteness by German child L2 learners of French leads to the conclusion that successive acquisition of languages exhibits similarities to adult L2 in some aspects of… read more
2003 The Verb–Object parameter in simultaneous and successive acquisition of bilingualism (In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism, Müller, Natascha (ed.), pp. 295–334 | Article
2001 The simultaneous acquisition of two first languages: Early differentiation and subsequent development of grammars Trends in Bilingual Acquisition, Cenoz, Jasone and Fred Genesee (eds.), pp. 11–41 | Article
1996 Subject-Verb and Object-Verb Agreement in Early Basque Generative Perspectives on Language Acquisition: Empirical findings, theoretical considerations and crosslinguistic comparisons, Clahsen, Harald (ed.), pp. 201 ff. | Article
1994 Preface Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development, Meisel, Jürgen M. (ed.), pp. 1 ff. | Article
1994 Getting FAT: Finiteness, Agreement and Tense in Early Grammars Bilingual First Language Acquisition: French and German grammatical development, Meisel, Jürgen M. (ed.), pp. 89 ff. | Article
