Katrin Schmitz
List of John Benjamins publications for which Katrin Schmitz plays a role.
Articles
2016 Objects of transitive verbs in Italian as a heritage language in contact with German Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 6:3, pp. 227–261 | Article
This paper seeks to close a gap in the ongoing research on heritage languages (HL), their acquisition, and the nature of transfer in HL with a study on a hitherto understudied language combination, namely Italian heritage speakers (HS) raised in Germany with two native languages. The current… read more
2006 Null arguments in monolingual children: A comparison of Italian and French The Acquisition of Syntax in Romance Languages, Torrens, Vincent and Linda Escobar (eds.), pp. 69–93 | Article
Research on the development of pronouns in French and Italian has shown that object clitics are acquired with more effort than other syntactic categories: they are realized later in development than subject clitics and strong subject and object pronouns. Both the delay of object clitics and the… read more
2006 Indirect objects and Dative case in monolingual German and bilingual German/Romance language acquisition Datives and Other Cases: Between argument structure and event structure, Hole, Daniel, André Meinunger and Werner Abraham (eds.), pp. 239–268 | Article