Overview

The focus of this collection of essays is on the acquisition of so called vulnerable and invulnerable grammatical domains in multilingualism. Language acquisition is studied from a comparative perspective, mostly in the framework of generative grammar. Different types of multilingualism are compared, the existence of multiple grammars in L1 acquisition, simultaneous L2 acquisition (balanced and unbalanced bilingualism) and successive L2 acquisition (child and adult L2 acquisition). Evidence from the language pairs French-German, Italian-Swedish, Spanish-English, Spanish-German, Spanish-Basque, Portuguese-Japanese-English, Portuguese-German, English-German, Turkish-German is brought to bear on grammatical issues pertaining to the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase, pronoun use and the null-subject property, clause structure, verb position, non-finite clauses, agreement at the clause level, and on issues like code mixing and language dominance.

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Author:   Natascha Müller (University of Hamburg)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.830kg
ISBN:  

9789027219213

ISBN 10:   9027219214
Pages:   374
Publication Date:   17 July 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction (by Muller, Natascha); 2. The DP, a vulnerable domain?: Evidence from the acquisition of French (by Kupisch, Tanja); 3. Child and adult acquisition of word order in the Italian DP (by Bernardini, Petra); 4. Null Subjects and optional infinitives in Basque (by Ezeizabarrena, Maria-Jose); 5. The acquisition of subjects in bilingual children: Pronoun use in Portuguese-German children (by Hinzelin, Marc-Olivier); 6. Approaches to bilingual acquisition data (by Gawlitzek-Maiwald, Ira); 7. Factors accounting for code-mixing in an early developing bilingual (by Deuchar, Margaret); 8. Syllable final consonants in Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual acquisition (by Lleo, Conxita); 9. Interrogative elements as subordinators in Turkish: Aspects of Turkish-German bilingual children's language use (by Herkenrath, Annette); 10. Child L2 acquisition: An insider account (by Kato, Mary Aizawa); 11. The Verb-Object parameter in simultaneous and successive acquisition of bilingualism (by Mohring, Anja); 12. Multiple grammars, feature-attraction, pied-piping, and the question: Is AGR inside TP? (by Roeper, Thomas); 13. Name index; 14. Subject index

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The volume makes an excellent read [...] It includes several original research papers on childhood bilingualism that are beautifully written and might become classics. -- Ute Bohnacker, Lund University, in Studies in Second Language Acquisition 27(4), 2005

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