(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism (Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027219214 ISBN 13: 9789027219213

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2003

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027219214
• ISBN 13: 9789027219213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 388
• Editor: Müller Natascha