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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811971003321

Titolo

The development of grammar : language acquisition and diachronic change : in honour of Jürgen M. Meisel / / edited by E. Rinke, Tanja Kupisch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-12206-5

9786613122063

90-272-8711-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

viii, 414 p

Collana

Hamburg studies on multilingualism ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

RinkeEsther

KupischTanja

MeiselJürgen M

Disciplina

415

Soggetti

Grammar, Comparative and general - Topic and comment

Language acquisition

Language and languages - Variation

Linguistic change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. (2)L1 versus l2 versus child L2 : similarities and differences -- pt. 2. The acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories -- pt. 3. Autonomous development vs. crosslinguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition -- pt. 4. Language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume focuses on different aspects of language development. The contributions are concerned with similarities and differences between first and second language acquisition, the acquisition of sentence structure and functional categories, cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition as well as the relation between language acquisition, language contact and diachronic change. The recurrent topic of the volume is the link between linguistic variation and the limitation of structural variability in the framework of a well-defined theory of language. In this respect, the volume opens up new perspectives for future research.