Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism 1
(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism

Edited by Natascha Müller
University of Hamburg

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.

Table of contents

• Introduction
  Natascha Müller
• The DP, a vulnerable domain? Evidence from the acquisition of French
  Tanja Kupisch
• Child and adult acquisition of word order in the Italian DP
  Petra Bernardini
• Null Subjects and optional infinitives in Basque
  Maria-José Ezeizabarrena
• The acquisition of subjects in bilingual children: Pronoun use in Portuguese-German children
  Marc-Olivier Hinzelin
• Approaches to bilingual acquisition data
  Ira Gawlitzek-Maiwald
• Factors accounting for code-mixing in an early developing bilingual
  Margaret Deuchar and Rachel Muntz
• Syllable final consonants in Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual acquisition
  Conxita Lleó, Imme Kuchenbrandt, Margaret Kehoe and Cristina Trujillo
• Interrogative elements as subordinators in Turkish: Aspects of Turkish-German bilingual children’s language use
  Annette Herkenrath, Birsel Karakoç and Jochen Rehbein
• Child L2 acquisition: An insider account
  Mary Aizawa Kato
• The Verb–Object parameter in simultaneous and successive acquisition of bilingualism
  Anja Möhring and Jürgen M. Meisel
• Multiple grammars, feature-attraction, pied-piping, and the question: Is AGR inside TP?
  Thomas Roeper

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