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	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 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

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2014. On the nature of verb–noun dissociations in bilectal SLI: A psycholinguistic perspective from Greek. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 17:01 ► pp. 169 ff.

ZIMMERMANN, MICHAEL & GEORG A. KAISER

2014. On expletive subject pronoun drop in Colloquial French. Journal of French Language Studies 24:01 ► pp. 107 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Historical linguistics

Bilingualism

Language acquisition

Syntax

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CFDM – Bilingualism & multilingualism

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2011000208