(In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism

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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. (In)vulnerable Domains in Multilingualism Editorial page Title page LCC page Table of contents Introduction References The DP, a vulnerable domain? Conclusion Notes References Child and adult acquisition of word order in the Italian DP Discussion and conclusions Notes Appendix References Null Subjects and optional infinitives in Basque Conclusion Notes References The acquisition of subjects in bilingual children Conclusion Notes References Approaches to bilingual acquisition data Notes References Factors accounting for code-mixing in an early developing bilingual Conclusion Note References Syllable final consonants in Spanish and German monolingual and bilingual acquisition Conclusion Notes Appendix References Interrogative elements as subordinators in Turkish Abbreviations Notes References Child L2 acquisition Final considerations Notes References The Verb–Object parameter in simultaneous and successive acquisition of bilingualism Conclusions Notes References Multiple grammars, feature-attraction, pied-piping, and the question: Is Agr inside TP? Conclusion Notes References Name index Subject index